Selling Your Lecture Notes - Illegal?
2008-04-06 04:04:20 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Professor Michael Moulton of the University of Florida is suing a company called Einstein's Notes, that repackages and sells notes taken by students in lecture theatres. Professor Moulton believes that if a student takes notes while he is giving a lecture, that he, and not the student, owns the copyright of whatever the student composes on their page. He believes that the notes are derivatives of his original notes and that his students should not be allowed to sell them. He is seeking damages in the amount of all profits made by Einstein's Notes 'Moulton Study Guides.' UPDATE |
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2008-04-04 17:02:50 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Business
You know the promotional clips you can find for practically any movie online? Well, Paramount has found a way to monetize its collection. Oh, and it gets better -- the film giant has earmarked its stash for sale within two virtual worlds.
Okay, so here's how it all comes together: Paramount, seeing an opportunity to monetize its promotional clips like ring tones, has dipped into its vault of promotional clips. The plan is to make them available for $1 each for users of the There.com and vMTV virtual worlds. After a user purchases one of the seconds-long clips, he/she can have it play over their avatar's head while surfing through the virtual world.
Don't get us wrong, it'd be great to have a one-liner from "Beverly Hills Cop" accent everything we do in real life. But, we're skeptical of Paramount's insistence on charging for what're clearly promotional clips in a virtual space. Repackaging snack-sized content as a tool for self-expression worked for the music industry, but charging for promotional video clips in a social space just seems silly for Paramount -- especially when it already has a Facebook app (VooZoo) that offers the same clips for free. [by Terrence Russell, Wired Magazine]
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2008-04-03 16:07:42 Posted
by: aoife Category: Copyright
"World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Everquest allow millions of users to simultaneously interact in virtual spaces. Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found new purpose, addicts, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild leaders - all living in a world that doesn't quite exist."
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2008-04-02 22:09:32 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
The leader of Ireland, An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern (Taoiseach means Chieftain or Leader in Irish) announced today his intentions to resign on May 6th 2008. Who will take his place? A very interesting time for Irish politics. Bertie Ahern was re-elected as Taoiseach for the third time less than a year ago, but since then he has been hounded by local media regarding his alleged corruption and questionable financial affairs. He has served as Taoiseach for almost 11 years. Who will be able to fill his shoes? UPDATE |
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2008-04-01 22:15:32 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Siegfried Woldhek knows faces -- he's drawn more than 1,100 of them. Using sophisticated image analysis and his own skills as an artist, he's come up with a fascinating discovery about Leonardo Da Vinci.
Leonardo Da Vinci's life and work is well known -- but his own face is not. Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it. [via BoingBoing.net]
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2008-03-31 21:40:38 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
Adobe have released a beta web based version of their industry standard photo manipulation and editing tool, Photoshop. The web based version is stripped down with basic functionality, but is free and requires no download or installation so will come in very handy for anyone wanting to do a quick crop, colour adjust or resize. UPDATE |
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2008-03-29 03:18:10 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
[ From YouTube ] - Whether a YouTube video has 10 views or 10,000,000, people always want to know the same thing: who's watching this? Where do viewers come from? How did they find my video?
Finally, we have some answers. Today we're releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. You can also delve deeper into the lifecycle of your videos, like how long it takes for a video to become popular, and what happens to video views as popularity peaks.
How does this help you? Well, using these metrics, you can increase your videos' view counts and improve your popularity on the site. For instance, you might learn that your videos are most popular on Wednesdays, that you have a huge following in Spain, or that new videos that play off previous content become more popular more quickly. With this information, you can concentrate on creating compelling new content that appeals to your target audiences, and post these videos on days you know these viewers are on the site. (Maybe even post your next video in Spanish?) And for those of you who are also partners, the more popular a video is, the more advertising revenue it can generate.
We'll be making new features and additional information available fairly quickly -- like a specific breakdown of how viewers discovered the video -- so keep an eye out as we roll out new features. As for now, you can find currently available metrics by clicking under the "About this Video" button under "My account > Videos, Favourites, Playlists > Manage my Videos." UPDATE |
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2008-03-27 16:26:57 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
“Sure, the OLPC project is supposed to do wonderful things for children of the world, but what has it done for me, lately?” Well, if you fancy yourself one of the Earth’s children, the OLPC organization has assembled 8.5 gigabytes of sample content that’s free and Creative Commons-licensed — free to acquire, and free to use.
Jacob Joaquin, who runs the terrific thumbuki blog and the Csound Blog and is part ofthe team developing Csound for the OLPC’s XO laptop, shares the news via Dr. Richard Boulanger at Berklee.
Plenty of people contributed top-notch sound: the Berklee College of Music, Csound developers around the world, electronica celebrity BT (himself a former Berklee and Boulanger student, among other alums), M-Audio and Digidesign, and the Open Path Music Group.
They’re donated under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so you can “freely create, compose, mix, remix, share, distribute and redistribute these samples and use them for any purpose as long as you clearly attribute the source.” That means anyone, anywhere can make use of this library — no OLPC required. [by Peter Kirn at CreateDigitalMusic.com] UPDATE |
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2008-03-27 13:35:34 Posted
by: ikat381 Category: Copyright
Copycamp.ca is taking registration info for the 2nd CopyCamp, "An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright." It’s run according to a model where events are scheduled by participants via a wiki or through spontaneous coordination during the unconference itself. Lots of bright and exciting artists and thinkers attended the 2006 CopyCamp. Plunderphonics composer John Oswald was there. So was Mark Hosler of the Negativland band, whose Mashin of the Christ and Truth In Advertising videos might be familiar to you from the TotalRecut gallery. Also in attendance was Canadian law professor/copyright activist Michael Geist, who ragaman7 has posted about on the blog. I don’t know who’s going this time but spots are limited so if you wanna be one of the contributors I suggest you hurry to the registration page which is at the following address: http://www.copycamp.ca/register-copycamp2008 UPDATE |
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2008-03-26 16:14:36 Posted
by: aoife Category: Movies/TV
It's 1998 and Star Wars fanboys across the globe eagerly await the release of Episode I. But for Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows the term "fanboys" is more than just a title, it's a badge of honor. Spurred by impatience and an undying loyalty to their cause, these former high school friends reunite to undertake the road trip of their fan-tasies. Traveling West across the country to visit their Mecca - George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch - the plan is to break in, steal the film and stake their claim as the first fanboys in history to watch it. But to secure their place in the fanboy hall of fame, they'll have to contend with bizarre bikers, a crazy pimp, a deranged group of Trekkies and the quiet intensity of William Shatner...Ernie Cline has written what he considers to be the Ultimate Star Wars Fan movie in 'Fanboys.' UPDATE |
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