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3D Scanners Are Getting Cheap So Fast, The Age Of 3D Piracy Could Soon Be Upon Us

Rachel Feltman and Christopher Mims | Quartz | August 15, 2013

[...MakerBot], the leading maker of desktop 3D printers, is launching its own 3D scanner next week, and Signe Brewster at GigaOM is betting it will cost just $500. Read More »

Beyond SOPA: Rep. Darrell Issa's Big Plans For Digitizing Democracy

Gregory Ferenstein | Fast Company | December 19, 2012

Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Read More »

Calling On Congress: Time To Fix Copyright

Parker Higgins | Electronic Frontier Foundation | December 12, 2012

[Over] and over, Congress has failed to engage in an informed discussion over which copyright policies advance the public interest, and which ones cause harm. That's why we're supporting our friends at Fight for the Future in their launch of a campaign to urge Congress to engage in a reality-based debate about our copyright policy. Read More »

Pricing, Not Piracy, Hurts Culture Trade (Part 3)

William Patry | Bloomberg | December 28, 2011

This pricing problem is strikingly absent from most discussions of intellectual property. Policy makers are still focused on enforcing tough copyright and trade regulations. Yet the Social Science Research Council found “no evidence -- and indeed no claims -- that enforcement efforts to date have had any impact on the overall supply of pirated goods.” In none of the nations studied was the comparative price -- the price that reflects cost-of-living differences --the same as in the U.S.

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The Copyright Rule We Need To Repeal If We Want To Preserve Our Cultural Heritage

Benj Edwards | The Atlantic | March 15, 2013

The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations. Read More »