Category: Fair Use & Copyright
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Remix Comes to Journalism at Last
As someone who has written for Poynter, this story caught my attention. I was relieved to notice that the “over attribution” began after my tenure as a contributor for E-Media Tidbits. The Romenesko Saga Some questions for Poynter about recent changes on its fabled site By Erika Fry via The Romenesko Saga : CJR. …
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Mozilla Questions Homeland Security Order
Our approach is to comply with valid court orders, warrants, and legal mandates, but in this case there was no such court order. Thus, to evaluate Homeland Security’s request, we asked them several questions similar to those below to understand the legal justification: Have any courts determined that the Mafiaafire add-on is unlawful or illegal…
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Stroome Plus Reporters Shows Some Promis
Image via CrunchBase My students in Online Journalism experimented with a new site that let’s you upload video clips, edit and publish videos, with a twist. Not only can you mix up your own video from your clips, Stroome is collaborative and social, designed to let you share your clips or use the clips of…
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WordPress Themes Must be GPL
Image via CrunchBase This is a simple explanation of how GNU’s GPL works for programs like WordPress, Drupal, etc. which are open source, but nonetheless licensed. It also contains a very clear explanation of why the php must be GPL, but also, how that doesn’t mean a theme or other GPL product can’t be commercial.…
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Don’t miss this: OVC presents Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
Image via Wikipedia The talk The lecture by Lawrence Lessig will last 45 minutes, and will be followed by a 30 minute interactive Q & A session. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance. Questions can be submitted using the hashtag #wireside. This is a talk about copyright in…
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Secret copyright treaty debated in DC: must-see video Boing Boing
CTA is a profoundly undemocratic undertaking, as is amply demonstrated in the debate in this video. K-street lobbyists, corporate execs, and other movers and shakers know everything that's going on in the ACTA negotiations, but the public is frozen out of the debate. And as Jamie Love points out, public access to other copyright negotiations…
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What’s good for AP is criminal for Google?
Danny Sullivan in Daggle reports that the AP scanned Palin’s book and TPM has the memo about it. AP did it so they could scan and in effect cherry-pick quotes (see Frank Rich on how few are reading the Palin tome) and thus it would appear that what AP attacks as criminal when Google does…
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Google goes for an OS and netbooks by Xmas 2010
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google, a company that wants us to live on the Web, pushed that agenda further Thursday as it unveiled details of its Chrome computer operating system and plans to have the OS in a new kind of ultra-cheap portable computer in time for Christmas 2010. via Google Aims To Remake Computers…
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IFPI statement on copyright before Telenor Decision
This is Google’s cache of http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_views/what_is_copyright.html. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Sep 6, 2009 17:32:50 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more Text-only version What is copyright? Copyright is the means by which a person or a business makes a living from creativity. Copyright…
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Sunlight Labs: Blog – Adobe is Bad for Open Government
The fact is, sticking to open, standards based technologies like HTML, XML, JSON and others are far more important and useful in getting your information out to the public than the proprietary formats of Adobe. Here’s a hint– if the data format has an ® by its name, it probably isn’t great for transparency or…
Barbara K Iverson 