Monthly Archives: May 2005

CC: the view downunder

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CC-AU has produced an extremely cool educational clip about Creative Commons. You can download it here
(13 meg). The video is under an Australian CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license. Continue reading

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OECD (on) Games

The OECD “Working Party on the Information Economy” has gotten very good at being insightful about network issues. Their latest report about “Digital Broadband Content: The online computer and video gaming industry” is here. Continue reading

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PFF: Right (as in correct) they are

The “Progress” and “Freedom” Foundation has called (rightly) for Supreme Court review of the “obviousness” standard in patent law. Continue reading

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the way of the ccNet


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So read this twice, because it is extraordinary news.
MinusKelvin is a physics and calculus teacher by day. A composer by night. He makes tracks available to podcasters using Creative Commons licenses. On Edison’s birthday this year, he joined ccMixter.
Friday we learned that Runoff Records, Inc. has signed MinusKelvin, after discovering him on ccMixter. Together with another ccMixter, Pat Chilla, the label will now be “doing the next three seasons of America’s Next Top Model.” Continue reading

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OpenRAW

So there’s this pattern of maturity in a technology — from proprietary to “open” — as players in the industry resolve they can’t bet their future on trusting one particular player. And so it is happening in the digital camera industry, as users and developers demand an OpenRAW standard. Continue reading

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buzz tracking, globally

Here’s a cool remix of the news, in a new service called Buzztracker. Using Google, the site gives a visual representation of news on the net. Continue reading

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Norway's view on linking

Georg Krog has an excellent summary of a recent Norwegian Supreme Court case on linking and copyright infringement. Continue reading

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Digital Cinema blog

Nicholas Rombes has a cool blog on digital cinema…. Continue reading

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Open Content Licensing

Roger Clarke’s got a useful “Proposal for Open Content License for Research Paper (Pr)ePrints” that has some nice things to say about Creative Commons licenses…. Continue reading

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is there a pdf way?

So imagine you’ve got a PDF document. The document will go through different versions. You want to make sure the reader is reading the current version. Is there a way to make a PDF version aware? So if you open it on a machine connected to the net, it can either update itself, or warn you that the version you’re reading is out of date? Continue reading

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