interesting point of view: norm based ip versus law-based ip

norms-based intellectual property systems: the case of french chefs | eric von hippel

in contrast, the recent rearm of the friends of a law based version who are eager to gain term extension for related rights in sound recording from 50 to 70 years | irights.info

additive: a lot of good and interesting ideas can be found on mr hippel's site: either in the length of a book or singular studies. worth to dig, relieved from property ... and while reading the name james boyle pops up again ;)

9/11, one part of the story is how peace and war became interchangeable afterwards. what's the meaning of war after 9/11? a story broadcasted in feb. 2007 and maybe worth to bring to the surface again, after seeing and reading all these reports. another historical piece to add ...

wondering what carl bildt would say five years after the interview, though, as well as sir michael howard, who is 88 by now.

it was my first time with these crowd, thanks to charles herzfeld, whom i wanted to see and went to geneva to do a story on arpa (was the first time we met personally, but having to many questions one needs to meet more often, which i could, luckily). but who would leave out a chance to listen to all these strategists of iiss, charles came over for?

the second mil event was en berlin (handelsblatt gathering). and i have to say, in hindsight i preferred geneva. at least it was far more interesting and challenging, yet strange. will never forget sir howard's talk about war was actually given as a dinner talk.

a xerox palo alto research project from the 1980s. collected papers 1988 -1989.

once thought through by polle t. zellweger, douglas b. terry, and daniel c. swinehart. (pointers are choosen randomly. these data mining and measuring tools are another story)