Phileaux’s Comments

• Jun 26th, 2018 @ 11:30am

  Re: Re: the Ardin effect (as Philo)

  on Wikipedia Makes The Case For Google & Facebook To Give Back To The Commons, Rather Than Just Take
  There are ways to contribute besides cash. For example, companies could allow or even encourage employees to contribute to wikipedia during "working hours." (the potential abuse factor here is that a company could also create a content army; but they can do that now anyway)
  
  Companies that control content could grant Wikipedia a limited license to all their works and stop trying to enforce copyright when digital content is simply used to support an article.
  
  Cloud companies could offer free virtual services, or discounts.
  
  And the more companies that do this, the less power any individual company has.
• Oct 9th, 2014 @ 3:13pm

  Yet another failure of business sense (as Philo)

  on Harvard Law Review Claims Copyright Over Legal Citations; Now Challenged By Public Domain Effort
  There is an ongoing theme in copyright law where companies that hold copyright on a work will use it to bully anyone and everyone that even darkens their door. It seems the concept of "licensing" has all but evaporated unless you have a very large checkbook, and/or copyright attorneys simply enjoy beating people down.
  
  In this case, how hard would it have been for Harvard to simply grant a license to Zotero to use the format? Sure they may have lost a chunk of revenue, but they would have cemented their publication in place as THE authority over citations. Instead they put hubris over common sense, and now stand to lose everything.