Tag Archives: copyright
Big Up The ‘Zillas!
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. Ours is less and less a free society. [Lawrence Lessig’s refrain, … more…
Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture á la Flash
Lawrence Lessig’s free_culture is now to be experienced online, in the form of a Flash movie. This has been blogged all over the place recently, so I was going to pass over it, but I could hardly complain about a … more…
FALLOUT – a follow up to The Internet Debacle
FALLOUT – a follow up to The Internet Debacle Janis Ian has written an update to her brilliant article on file sharing (blinked previously) which contains very nearly as much good stuff as the original. She also contends that out … more…
Copyright as Cudgel
Riding high in the Daypop chart at the moment, and quite right too, is an article called Copyright as Cudgel, which explains at considerable length the problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the threat it poses to … more…
But who are the real pirates?
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | But who are the real pirates? – Alex Cox dissents from the corporate anti-piracy line in yesterday’s Guardian (via Haddock)
Woody weighs in on intellectual property
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish … more…
Copyright Celebrity Smackdown
Very funny IRC log account of BayCon showdown between cranky scifi legend Harlan Ellison and Brad Templeton of EFF, Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing, and all-comers on the subject of copyright law, narrated by NTK’s Danny O’Brien (via Boing Boing)
Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech
IP: Bruce Sterling “Geeks and Spooks” speech at Information SystemSecurity and Education Center – what it says on the tin. (via Boing Boing)
Movie industry dealt DVD-cracking blow
Movie industry dealt DVD-cracking blow – take that, monopolist scum!!! (via Haddock)
MP3 Communism poster
MP3 Communism poster from The Modern Humorist (link fixed, July 2007), not for but on behalf of the RIAA. First Aid for The Dying Dot Com is very good too – Suitable, as they used to say, for framing.