Typically, I don’t comment on ongoing controversies, especially ones that I’ve already talked about on the Copyright 2.0 Show.
However, the Lane Hartwell controversy does not seem prepared to end. With the flames already fanned by some of the most popular bloggers, the debate rages on as Hartwell released her much-anticipated statement yesterday and the division [...]

Andrew Keen’s new book, “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture” is a self-described polemic, a controversial argument against the read-write Web and the notion of Web 2.0.
Keen, who founded a Web startup named AudioCafe during the dot com boom of the nineties, Keen describes himself as “an insider now [...]

If you need another reason to worry about content theft, consider the recent case involving the gossip blog Celebrity Hack.
About two weeks ago, an article on the site entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” was submitted to Digg. The story reached the front page briefly but was buried for unknown reasons.
Yesterday, a much lower-quality scraped [...]