Total Recut Shortlisted for Award
2008-01-20 06:54:20 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Total Recut has been shortlisted for the final of the 2007 Golden Spiders Awards to be held in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on 22nd November. We have been shortlisted under the User Generated Content category alongside such websites as ifoods, menupages, anotherfriend and the Scissor Sisters. Wish us luck! UPDATE |
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2007-11-06 18:05:28 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Internet Activist, Journalist & Sci-Fi Author, Cory Doctorow has composed a very eloquent and vocal piece for Information Week, entitled: 'How Big Media's Copyright Campaigns Threaten Internet Free Expression.' He raises some excellent points regarding the balance that needs to be struck between protection of copyright owner's interests and protecting artists' rights to freedom of expression... UPDATE |
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2007-10-29 18:03:08 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
English Apple fanatic, Nick Haley decided to create his own iPod Touch commercial
using clips from Apple's website and standard home video editing software. He uploaded it to YouTube and rather than sending him a cease and desist letter, Apple decided to buy the video from him. And so they flew him out to L.A. to re-shoot the ad in High Definition, and broadcast it at the World Series. That's more like it! UPDATE |
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2007-10-27 01:04:55 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Facebook recently struck a deal with Microsoft to allow Gates' empire a measly 1.6 percent stake in the runaway start-up for $240 million. Facebook is 3 and a half years old and takes in less than $200 million annually at present. Two years ago, Rupert Murdock paid $580 million for outright ownership of MySpace, which still reigns supreme in the world of online social networking. Facebook, however is catching up quickly, and Microsoft's partnership would seem to make 23 year old founder, Mark Zuckerberg's decision to turn down Yahoo's previous offer of $1 billion for outright ownership, a wise move. Zuckerberg started facebook in his Harvard dorm room and now employs 300 staff and has over 50 million members worldwide. With the Microsoft deal secured, Zuckerberg intends to more than double the Facebook staff to 700 and they expect to increase online membership to over 300 million in the next couple of years. Online social networking is proving to be one of the most sustaining activities on the web; only time will tell if it will eventually surpass 'surfing for porn'... UPDATE |
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2007-10-25 19:48:08 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Commercial Manga is suffering an inevitable decline in Japan due to the natural slow down of popularity in print media. But Doujinshi could be its saving grace. Doujinshi, or fan-fiction comics appropriate copyrighted material, remix it into a new fan made comic and share it online. This has created a whole new breed of die hard fans and increased general interest in the art form. A shining example of Remix Culture at its finest. UPDATE |
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2007-10-24 14:14:05 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Digital Rights
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections. Instead, they have decided to go with the Open Content Alliance who do not put any restrictions on the distribution of the works involved. Google's deal contains a clause that prevents the libraries from sharing their books with any other commercial companies. Such restrictions are not healthy for the widespread distribution of ideas and so the Libraries are quite right to refuse to enter into a limited deal with either Google or Microsoft, whose main aim is to exploit these works for profit. UPDATE |
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2007-10-27 01:04:22 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
BloodSpell is a 2006 fantasy film produced by Strange Company. BloodSpell employs filming techniques known as machinima, and is the first feature-length production to use BioWare's Aurora Engine, developed for the computer role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, to generate the video portion of the film[1]. The film was completed in December 8, 2006, after being released serially, in short episodes, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License, which allows for redistribution, modification, and creation of fan fiction.[2]. Strange Company have asserted somewhat controversially that, as of 2006, BloodSpell, was the largest machinima production.
The series features numerous cameos, including several voice appearances from science fiction author Charles Stross.
In August 2006, a controversy sprung up around BloodSpell when the Leipzig Games Conference pronounced it too violent to be shown as part of their Machinima showcase. After a protest, the Games Conference changed their position (taking a considerable risk in light of the German press's attitudes to game violence) and allowed the film to be shown.
[Thanks to Wikipedia] UPDATE |
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2007-10-17 13:46:46 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Business
Thank god for that. Amazon's controversial patent of their 'one-click' business method has been thrown out thanks to legitimate objections. Allowing patents on such broad business practices as this can only have one effect - to chill innovation. Amazon should have known better, but perhaps they ignored their conscience on this one. Hopefully, this example will do well to thwart other greedy attempts to monopolise 'business methods' that should be free for all to build on. UPDATE |
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2007-10-15 10:10:38 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Movies/TV
Deals have been struck between the makers of hit TV show CSI and Linden Labs, creators of Second Life. The popular TV show has arranged for Second Life to be mentioned in one of its upcoming shows, to direct its viewers to the virtual world. There is an interesting crossover here between mainstream media and non-mainstream. Users of Second Life will be directed to watch the Tv show of CSI and fans of the show will be encouraged to join Second Life. Linden Labs is going from strength to strength... UPDATE |
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2007-10-14 14:27:56 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Following Radiohead's radical announcement to sell their latest album directly to fans and at a price of their choosing, Nine Inch Nails have decided to sell their work directly to their fans. Record companies days are numbered unless they can reinvent themselves into a new form more suited to the new business models of the 21st century music industry...
Here is a statement from Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor: 'I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as i see fit and appropriate.' UPDATE |
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