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We need an anti-moron norm: If something sounds crazy, assume its not. Assume you’ve missed something, and check again. If after reading and trying to understand the issue and the person more, you still think its crazy, go slow. Continue reading →

Five-year old Felix’s mom, Kierstin, sent me this image a bit ago. “I thought you would get a laugh out of these photos where your Remix became a crucial supporting wall for a Medieval Castle, manned by Playmobile guards and a plastic dinosaur.” Indeed…. Continue reading →

Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo’s BOSS, he reassociates every three words to another text on the web. Give it a look. (I think I’d call it re-remixing)…. Continue reading →

So you’re likely not to recognize the term — in all caps, PACER — but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this essential service radically improved. You can help here…. Continue reading →

Code v2 in Chinese…. Continue reading →

I still think lots about how to make obvious the obvious responsibility we all have to clean up your carbon. GreenWorldApps is developing a suite of web apps to make that easier. Continue reading →

As I pleaded before, if you’re a Wikipedian (and if you’re not, you should be), and you’ve made more than 25 edits, then you are entitled to vote on whether Wikipedia should be relicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (BY-SA).
If you are entitled, then please vote to make free culture interoperable. Voting ends May 3. That’s like minutes from now.
Read more about it here. Vote here. Continue reading →

The Bloomsbury Academic Press version of REMIX is now Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY-NC). You can download the book on the Bloomsbury Academic page. Continue reading →

More on David Post’s fantastic book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose, here’s an interview on Reason.tv Continue reading →

I am very happy and very very proud to report a big victory in Golan v. Holder. As you may recall, Golan was filed at the time Eldred v. Ashcroft was in the Supreme Court. The case challenged the URAA, which restored the copyright to works in the public domain. We lost in the district court, but then the CA10 reversed that decision, holding (for the first time ever) that the First Amendment restrained Congress when it changed the “traditional contours of copyright” beyond those explicitly mentioned in Eldred (idea/expression dichotomy and fair use). The CA10 sent the case back down to the district court, and Friday,

Judge Babcock granted our motion

for summary judgment, holding that the URAA violated the First Amendment to the extent it restored copyright against parties who had relied on works in the public domain.
I suspect we’ll be hearing more about this case. Continue reading →