Monthly Archives: June 2003

Ito into the commons

Joi Ito has joined the Creative Commons board. One clearly bright spot just got brighter. Continue reading

Posted in cc | Comments Off on Ito into the commons

from the nicely said department

Evan Hunt has a long-ish post about ways to understand environmentalism, both for tangible and intangible resources. As he writes, protecting the commons is about making sure that in the future “you won’t have to be rich to breathe fresh air” — or work for a major studio to be free to build upon our past with film. I love work that pulls together different fields into a common frame. This does it nicely. Continue reading

Posted in good code | Comments Off on from the nicely said department

man, i don’t even get my name spelled correctly

another cost of losing eldred. Continue reading

Posted in bad code | 10 Comments

cutting libraries while killing the commons

Commons-blog has a nice link to a story about Milwaukee libraries being defunded. Yet at the same time, extensions of copyright terms simply increase the cost of getting access to content. If every librarian signed our Reclaim the Public Domain Petition, then perhaps we could rebuild a public domain that could make the costs of libraries fall. Continue reading

Posted in eldred.cc | 5 Comments

freeing privacy reports

Joi Ito has posted a Privacy Report on technology and legislation across the world. It is available under a CreativeCommons license. Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on freeing privacy reports

in the CC blog: Bezos on Cory

The Creative Commons blog has a great story about Jeff Bezos recommending Cory’s first novel (and there’s more coming!) Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory’s book is available either for purchase or for download — for free, under a Creative Commons license. Continue reading

Posted in free culture | 1 Comment

a picture of the public domain

Cabinet Magazine has a great graf that shows the stagnation of the public domain, as well as an interactive version showing the same. If the numbers are right, then this battle to restore (in effect) a renewal requirement is the most important battle to reclaim the public domain that we could wage. Continue reading

Posted in eldred.cc | 2 Comments

directors and actors for the public domain

We have posted another letter written to members of Congress from directors and actors about the threat that endless copyright terms creates for our culture. As the letter argues, most of the film from the 1920s and 1930s is not commercially exploited, which means most of the film from the 1920s and 1930s sits unpreserved and rotting away. But because of copyright regulations, it is effectively impossible to restore this film until the copyright expires. And when weill that be exactly?

Meanwhile, we’re approaching 12,000 signatures, which is great great news. Please help spread the news. Continue reading

Posted in eldred.cc | 3 Comments

insanely cool — 10,000

So we’ve hit 10,000. This is extraordinarily great news. Thank you to everyone. Continue reading

Posted in eldred.cc | 8 Comments

approaching 10,000

We are approaching 10,000 on our petition. That is our goal for this week — so please use the excuse of the weekend to pester your friends. There are more announcements next week, but please do what you can to help now. Continue reading

Posted in eldred.cc | 2 Comments