Archive for the 'copyright' Category

Jefferson on Software?
August 27, 2007

Two months ago, I was invited as a collaborator on a project to write a book about intellectual property. My task was to study such field from the perspective of software. It was the perfect excuse to get myself some time to completely read the brilliant essay from Lawrence Lessig Code 2.0.
In a particular chapter, [...]

World Intellectual Property Day
April 27, 2007

Probably you may not know that April 26th is the day we celebrate Intellectual Property. The date was chosen due to the foundation of the WIPO. And due to the lack of a “Game Developers Day” this was the first time that someone congratulated me on a profession’s date. Not only that: I’ve been kindly [...]

Autopirated?
April 19, 2007

I’ve been feeling a little bit nostalgic lately, and I did a very strange thing: I played my own game, Football Deluxe. It may sound strange, but I think that I haven’t played a full session of that game more than 5 or 6 times in spite of the fact that I coded the whole [...]