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Monthly Archives: July 2005
bottom-up broadband on top
The referendum that I described earlier has passed. (Thanks, Mike!) Continue reading
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remixing resolve
From Victor Stone, the amazingly talented musician/coder who is building ccMixter.org:
About 36 hours after the London bombing ASHWAN and Curious uploaded a rap in reaction specifically to the bombing. Almost immediately they were asked to upload the a cappellas. A few days later the remixes are starting to come in…
http://ccmixter.org/file/ASHWAN/40
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CC on PBS
From the PBS website:
Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available – exclusively over the Internet – broadcast television’s first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely’s interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology.
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“This ground-breaking series will be distributed under a Creative Commons license, so if viewers like what they see, they can redistribute the shows or even edit their own non-commercial version,” Cindy Johanson, Senior Vice President, PBS Interactive Learning, said.
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is the public domain illegal?
The BBC is being attacked by UK record companies for giving away public domain recordings of Beethoven. According to the record companies, such offers are “unfair competition.” (Thanks, Wallace). Corrected — sorry for the confusion. Continue reading
Posted in bad law
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Watergate trivia — was there ever a press conference like this?
This is an extraordinary transcript of the latest White House Press conference re the Rove story. Is this as unusual as it seems? 41 questions about one issue in 35 minutes. Continue reading
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dark news about the archive
Bill Patry has a very depressing account about a “a horrific DMCA et al. suit filed against the Internet Archive.” Continue reading
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oops, they did it again: the Economist: 14+14
Old news: The Economist has again repeated its proposal that copyright terms be restored to the original Statute of Anne term: 14 + 14. Way too radical (but on the right track!) (Thanks, Matthias!) Continue reading
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the onion on (my) heroes
Great interview with Negativland‘s Don Joyce and Mark Hosler. Favorite line: “Copyright law does not distinguish between sampling and counterfeiting. That’s just stupid.” (Thanks, Fernando!) (No, not that Fernando!). Continue reading
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alternative freedom (in progress)
There’s a cool new documentary brewing about the free software, free culture movement. I don’t like to point to media with me in it, and this does, but I am very funny looking in it, and there is a fantastically moving set of quotes by RMS. Check it out here. Continue reading
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patent directive goes down (again)
Senator Fiorello Cortiana reports that the Patent Directive in the EU Parliament has been defeated — 650 to 14. Continue reading
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