Leading scientists including Professor Brian Cox and The Guardian columnist and author Ben Goldacre have backed a campaign calling on the government to reinvest the expected £4 billion windfall from the 4G mobile auction in UK science and technology. The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) and Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, are pioneering the '4Growth' campaign, urging ministers to use the 4G money to fund "technologies vital to the UK's future". Alongside Cox and Goldacre, the campaign is also backed by former Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society, Lord Rees; former chief secretary to the Treasury and science minister, Lord Waldegrave; and Nobel laureate Andre Geim. Later in the year, media regulator Ofcom will start an auction of the largest amount of spectrum ever sold off in the UK - 80% more than the multi-billion (more)...
- 10/29/2012
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Downloaded movie prices are about 30% to 50% higher than buying an actual DVD. That's if you can find the film online
Ask anyone who's studied copyright policy – scholars of music and literature, economists, sociologists, law professors – and they'll tell you that the No 1 problem with copyright is that it is enacted without recourse to evidence.
Professor Ian Hargreaves, the latest eminent scholar commissioned by government to review Britain's copyright policy, lamented that his advice echoed many of his predecessors', none of which had been heeded.
Policymakers are unabashed about the lack of evidence in copyright policy — the EC's 2011 Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights report declares "The case does not need to be made anymore: Ipr in their different forms and shapes are key assets of the EU economy." Of course, "the case does not need to be made" is another way of saying, "the case has not been made".
Writing in the Guardian,...
Ask anyone who's studied copyright policy – scholars of music and literature, economists, sociologists, law professors – and they'll tell you that the No 1 problem with copyright is that it is enacted without recourse to evidence.
Professor Ian Hargreaves, the latest eminent scholar commissioned by government to review Britain's copyright policy, lamented that his advice echoed many of his predecessors', none of which had been heeded.
Policymakers are unabashed about the lack of evidence in copyright policy — the EC's 2011 Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights report declares "The case does not need to be made anymore: Ipr in their different forms and shapes are key assets of the EU economy." Of course, "the case does not need to be made" is another way of saying, "the case has not been made".
Writing in the Guardian,...
- 11/23/2011
- by Cory Doctorow
- The Guardian - Film News
The first thing you notice on meeting Tim Minchin is that he’s a lot bigger than he seems on TV or stage. When he’s performing he comes across as an elfin pixie. In real life he’s much bigger, his crowning mane of backcombed hair contriving to make him look even larger still. He’s physically different but he’s expectedly optimistic, light-hearted and thoughtful. He’s also extremely talkative and there’s a feeling I could have spoken to him for hours and not just the 15 minutes I was allotted.
A great deal of Tim’s musical comedy addresses rationalist themes and his popularity is now at an all time high, having played the Royal Albert Hall with a 50 piece orchestra, hosted the first ever BBC Comedy Prom and written the music and lyrics to the critically acclaimed RSC musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic novel,...
A great deal of Tim’s musical comedy addresses rationalist themes and his popularity is now at an all time high, having played the Royal Albert Hall with a 50 piece orchestra, hosted the first ever BBC Comedy Prom and written the music and lyrics to the critically acclaimed RSC musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic novel,...
- 11/9/2011
- by Jez Sands
- Nerdly
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