NYPL & Flickr Commons

Back in my days in DC, I recall using the card catalog at the National Archives to do research for photos, videos and films. It was/is such a shame that so much of their collection still isn’t even housed in a digital database, let alone digitized for use. But times are changing quickly.
The New York [...]

Article: Copyright Cartel?

Via WIRED, “Disney, CBS, Microsoft, Fox, NBC, Viacom, Dailymotion, MySpace and Veoh Networks announced so-called User Generated Content Principles that appear aimed at stifling fair use. The announcement calls for the ‘implementation of state of the art filtering technology with the goal to eliminate infringing content on (user-generated content services), including blocking infringing uploads before [...]

Unshelved: Copyright Humor

Via Unshelved:

Lessig moves on from copyright

The free culture leader has announced he is moving on to a new brier patch. Lawrence Lessig is giving up the copyright fight and moving on to politics. From Taking the Copyright Fight Into a New Arena, NY Times:
Mr. Lessig addressed in his blog his frustration with a political system that he sees as unshakably [...]

The Indie Artists’ Garden

A while back, I posted a news link that EMI had joined with Apple in a decision to offer music downloads without digital rights management locks. It is a significant decision as major content holders have tried everything they can think of to stem digital file sharing, but since the iTunes DRM makes it tough [...]

The Indie Artists’ Garden

A while back, I posted a news link that EMI had joined with Apple in a decision to offer music downloads without digital rights management locks. It is a significant decision as major content holders have tried everything they can think of to stem digital file sharing, but since the iTunes DRM makes it tough [...]

The Indie Artists’ Garden

A while back, I posted a news link that EMI had joined with Apple in a decision to offer music downloads without digital rights management locks. It is a significant decision as major content holders have tried everything they can think of to stem digital file sharing, but since the iTunes DRM makes it tough [...]

Copyright Alliance

Sad news via Cynopsis Digital today. “An industry-supported Copyright Alliance was formed in Washington, D.C. with the stated goal of promoting the value of copyright as an agent for creativity and strengthening current copyright law. The group is headed by Patrick Ross, a former senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, and has won [...]

I promise more original content soon, but I want to make sure to keep you up on all that is going on out there! Today’s New York Times reports on Amazon’s response to recent murmurings by Steve Jobs (and consumers!) to sell music  without crazy DRM to keep users from playing their legitimately purchased tunes [...]