CC: the view downunder

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Lessig

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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.

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OECD (on) Games

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Lessig

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.

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PFF: Right (as in correct) they are

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Lessig

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

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the way of the ccNet

Posted on May 14, 2005 by Lessig


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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.”

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OpenRAW

Posted on May 14, 2005 by Lessig

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.

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buzz tracking, globally

Posted on May 14, 2005 by Lessig

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.

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Norway's view on linking

Posted on May 8, 2005 by Lessig

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

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Digital Cinema blog

Posted on May 8, 2005 by Lessig

Nicholas Rombes has a cool blog on digital cinema.

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Open Content Licensing

Posted on May 8, 2005 by Lessig

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.

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is there a pdf way?

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Lessig

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?

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