no linking down under

An Australian Court finding liability for linking to copyright-infringing mp3s.

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CC in the key of Bulgarian

Here’s a site with music by Anthony Raijekov, a fantastic Bulgarian musician, licensed under the ShareMusic (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) CC-license. This is part of the Bulgarian Open-Content.Net project.

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bottom-up broadband on top

The referendum that I described earlier has passed. (Thanks, Mike!)

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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.

“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.

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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.

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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.”

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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!)

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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!).

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