Greater Avignon Area
Trained engineer in information processing, communications and simulation. Now studying the problems of regulating intellectual property and copyright in a digital environment. Applying social principles to the exchange of intellectual products. Specialties: Information processing, Digital Rights Management, DRM, copyright, distributed intellectual product rights, memetics, design
Studying the social distribution of copyrightable material in a digital environment using the theory of memetics and evolutionary systems. To finance this activity I also design web sites, custom furniture, and specialised electronic clocks.
Nicholas Bentley is an engineer, designer, and craftsman who has pursued a varied career in electronics, communications, information processing, flight simulation and creative design. For the last fifteen years Nicholas has work independently following his twin passions for contemporary furniture design and the protection of intellectual property rights. For the last ten years he has been researching and developing the Rights Office system; a distributed system for regulating copyrighted material in digital form.
Supervised a group of engineers developing and modifying flight simulators. This included simulator hardware, computer systems, visual systems, system software and real time simulation software. Responsibility for engineering acceptance testing of new multi-million pound flight simulators. Designed and managed an Ethernet local area network.
Chiefly testing and repair of high power H.F. communications transmitters including digital control circuits and some work on television cameras and monitors.