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Whose Video Is It, Anyway?
When YouTube was sued on July 14 for copyright infringement, the shock wasn't that the video-sharing service was being yanked into court. Questions had been swirling for months about whether the upstaCopyright Comic
Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? “Will a spiky-haired, camera-toting super-heroine... restore decency and common sense to the world of creative endeavor?” -Paul Bonner, The Herald-Sun “BounBe Careful What You Publish to an Online Photo Sharing Site
A development organization creates an online game to help young people understand how transportation problems affect development work.Is Hell Freezing Over? Bill Gates Embraces the Knowledge Commons
Bad-boy Billy tells AIDS researchers that they can have masses of cash for projects - as long as they make all the results 'open source' and free for all to access. Blimey, who'd have thunk it?It's Amazing What Happens When A Government's Not In Hollywood's Pocket
It sure is...the artists and entertainment companies have to actually innovate in the face of changing business models! What a crazy idea...call my lawyer.Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry
The EFF challenges the content moguls to answer some simple questions about their approach to intellectual property and copyright infractions. Link via BoingBoing.Mashup and Revolutionary Cultural Appropriation
"...I advance the case that mashup is perhaps the most subversive genre of music to emerge since NWA taught me how to gangsta lean." Interesting perspective, fits well with my 'new content iScience Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet.
The ever-controversial Cory Doctorow fields his copyleft views in one of the SF&F heartlands, Locus. I think we can expect a major blogstorm over this one in the next week or so.AP Looks At Piracy Around The World... Misses The Real Story
TechDirt disassembles the mainstream media reportage on the 'evils' of piracy worldwide.Digital Connection: Bob Schneider, a Musician Who Gets It
Kami Huyse on PR students.Files Are Not for Sharing, by Matthew Baldwin & Goopymart
Great little cartoon satirising the anti-piracy messages from the content industries. Via Human Iterations.Why an Open API is Important to the Web 2.0 Social Contract
Tod Maffin's critique of spelling errors in a direct marketing piece garnered a letter from the founder, along with a freebie of one Trackitback service.BitTorrent Could Become a Channel for Branded Entertainment
When the marketing people start saying it, you know there must be a watertight way of turning a profit from it. Let's hope Rubel's right on this one.Public library offers free audio book downloads
Library in LA takes a step in the right direction...not quite far enough, but it's a start.Launch of the APIG report on DRM
UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group recommends a number of things, most of which involve not repeating the DRM mistakes made over the pond. Hopefully the government will actually respond to theHideous company sends Boing Boing a pre-emptive nastygram
BB hate commercialised over-hyped ritualised-combat nationalism-boosting team-sports too! How gratifying, it's a lonely view to hold at the moment.DRM and the British Library
Knowledge now has a priceCREATIVE COMMONS IN SL: THE CONDUCER OF MIA WOMBAT
Canadian music creatorsA New Voice
Briarpatch Magazine's podcast is now on the Rabble podcast network.How to turn your iPod into a radio TiVo (and piss off the music industry)
Robert French applies the 12 Step model to communicators who are trying to give up their addiction to old school communications techniques.
