Property, intangible

a blog about ownership of intellectual property rights and its licensing


starfish

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish#Regeneration

    Wikipedia is a registered trademark, owned by Wikimedia Foundation. A New York Times article says “nearly every time Wikipedia has come to a fork in the road where the project could have chosen to impose more restrictions on who could edit what — even insist on a bit of expertise — it has chosen not… Continue reading

  • Starfish and Spiders

    I’ve been reading The Starfish and the Spider. The premise of the book is that some organizations are centralized and top-down, which is the spider – you cut the head off and it dies. But there are decentralized, non-hierarchical organizations that are like a starfish – if you cut it in half, it becomes two… Continue reading