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Breaking Down The Problems Of DRM For Everyday Users
"... explain to the average person what DRM means to them: that music they've bought from one service that works with one device may not work if they get a different brand of device."COPYING A CONTROVERSY (Updated)
"If the earliest days of Second Life resemble the first century of American history (and they do) then the most recent years of the world seem to be replicating the last couple decades of the IntLinden bans CopyBot following resident protests
"The sale of the CopyBot [...] drew angry protesters bearing signs, eventually forcing a would-be retailer to close shop. Store owners across Second Life also shuttered their businesses in protesOPEN FORUM: COPYBOT CONTROVERSY
"...is this a painful-but-necessary demonstration of Second Life's limited ability to protect IP on the architectural level, or a dangerous threat to the community of content creators? Or neitherMicrosoft's war waged with FairUse4WM
"What follows is a brief overview in two parts. In the first, we'll discuss current issues surrounding fair use with regard to the DMCA, and in the second we'll approach Microsoft's legal actionsReview urged of ancient law on copyright for MP3 generation
"The report states that the forthcoming review of intellectual property [...] should update the law to take account of the changes in the way people want to listen to music, watch films and readWriting as Transgression: Submit to The Blog!
"The world is you, the act of being in the world reappropriates the world as being defined by you. Writing, blogging, is not mere intellectual masturbation. It is the theft of identity back fromRecording Industry Finally Willing To Admit That File Sharers Are Big Music Fans
"While it's laughable that it would take the industry this long to even venture to admit what was obvious to most everyone else, it is a tiny step in the right direction." Traditionally pithPeter Gabriel Re-Shocks the Monkey Online
" ... by posting the musical ingredients of his 1982 classic Shock the Monkey and inviting fans to morph it into something new and original." Very interesting news; the labels are starting tIndustry Finally Realizing That Ditching DRM Is Good For Business?
"It's unfortunate that much of the "should there be DRM" debate is positioned as "the recording industry" against "people who just want free music..." Techdirt has iGoogle Books Library grows despite controversy
"The library books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society will be digitized and added to the virtual shelves of the Google Books Library Project..." FirsPirates, Man Your Oars
reBang on 'GooTube': " ... the anti-corporate “free everything” crowd is going to volutarily go to work for the very corporations they claim to despise. Many of them, because they’re not especialTag This Rerun
"Let’s not tag DRM so quickly. It’s a system. It’s neutral. It’s all of us - corporations and consumers - who will determine through our behavior the form it eventually takes." More sane thiDo robots dream of copyright?
"Is an automaton a portrait? Or is it a copy? A derivative work? Or perhaps a recording?" Is the (still headless) Philip Dick automaton a breach of copyright and intellectual property laws?Creative Commons and "Read-Write" Culture
Worldchanging in support of CC licences.UC Joins Google Library Project
University of California opens up its academic libraries to be scanned, and lawsuits be damned.DRM for text? That's next
Oh, great. That's just what we need, more stupid rights management code when people are already complaining about interoperability.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 iSPEECH of the Student
US head-of-year graduate student takes his acceptance speech as opportunity to lay into the education system he just spent four years toiling through. Some damn fine points in there, that must have ma
