Creative Commons Turns 5!
2007-12-24 10:31:30 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at the Creative Commons 5th Birthday at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco recently stating that the non-profit organisation has managed to raise over $500,000 this year in its fund raising campaign. The Creative Commons is an infinitely important mediator in the tumultuous digital times we live in. May it continue to go from strength to strength... UPDATE |
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2007-12-19 20:35:46 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
The only thing stranger than making a video trailer for a magazine article is the subject of that article… Killer Parasites. Ransom Riggs at mental_floss created this trailer completely out of public domain footage he found. UPDATE |
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2007-12-13 21:50:53 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
This video is an educational piece designed to raise awareness of the issues surrounding copyright infringement and freedom of expression that are so prevailant in our online societies today. You Tube have recently been removing a lot more so called 'infringing' material from their website at the behest of large media companies such as the BBC, Paramount Pictures and MGM and deleting accounts left, right and centre. This is a terrible shame as a lot of the highly creative work being produced today is video remix work and many people may never see these entertaining pieces if they are 'erased from existence' by big corporations. For anyone else who has experienced this, make sure to send a counter-notice when a video that is clearly fair use is removed from your account by YouTube. Otherwise, the bullies will win. What kind of society are we living in when we are not free to play with our own media? When will this madness and oppression end?! Is cutting a photo out of a magazine and pasting it in a scrap book copyright infringement? Viva la Revolution du Liberte! UPDATE |
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2007-12-10 14:12:03 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
UK Superband Radiohead's gamble to allow users to download their latest album 'In Rainbow's' for whatever price they felt it was worth has paid off. The exposure alone was worth the risk but the band have made what Comscore estimates in the region of 1-2 million dollars from voluntary paid downloads alone so far and the album will be released for sale properly on the 1st January 2008. Radiohead have opened the road for future bands to follow... UPDATE |
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2007-12-07 13:01:55 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
FreeSpeech.org have put together an infotainment video dealing with the ongoing pillage of the Internet by big media companies, with a view to building secret files on each of us so that they can sell user-specific advertsising and make shit loads of money. The problem is, they will make this money at the expense of the user who has to put up with invasion of privacy, annoying unwanted pop up ads and an all round less pleasing web experience...this scenario can be prevented. UPDATE |
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2007-12-06 14:33:32 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
"How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law." As usual, Professor Lessig so eloquently puts forward the fundamental argument of the digital generation. Extremism is rampant and Lessig, as we do, looks for a balance... UPDATE |
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2007-12-04 15:17:29 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
BBC Worldwide have insisted that a 3 minute political parody featuring video clips of Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern remixed with clips from the BBC's Dragons Den TV Show be removed from YouTube under grounds of copyright infringement. The clip is clearly a fair use, being a political satire and also the clip was created as part of a University of Ulster Masters project earlier this year. This news comes only 2 weeks after one of Ireland's Prime Time Saturday night Talk Show's, Tubridy Tonight, planned to broadcast the clip during an interview with the Dragons Den's own Peter Jones. BBC looked promising last year with their Creative Archive project, but now it appears that they have gone the opposite direction again and are trying to stamp out freedom of expression... UPDATE |
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2007-12-03 13:51:58 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Internet inventor, Tim Berners-Lee recently orated his vision for social networking in the next five years. He sees a situation where users allow their data to connect to applications from other application sites rather than hoarding it all in one place. From his blog:
"Letting your data connect to other people’s data is a bit about letting go in that sense. It is still not about giving to people data which they don’t have a right to. It is about letting it be connected to data from peer sites. It is about letting it be joined to data from other applications.
It is about getting excited about connections, rather than nervous."
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2007-11-29 13:15:47 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Movies/TV
MTV have seen the potential benefits of offering content for free online as the success of the Daily Show has demonstrated. This move might put all of the many South Park for free sites out of commission, but the move is not planned until next year... UPDATE |
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2007-11-26 12:26:49 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
In a move that will comfort many online users, the RCMP have announced they will not target people who download copyrighted material for their personal use.
This follows release of an Industry Canada study showing peer-to-peer music downloading may boost CD buying. This contradicts the standard position held by record labels for the better part of a decade that online music sharing has had a devastating impact on the industry. [ By DAVID CANTON ] UPDATE |
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