David Weinberger facilitates the next Web of Ideas discussion on Wednesday, November 14, at 6:30 pm* at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA. It’s about how to rebuild copyright for the digital age.
“‘Designing Copyright from the Ground Up’: Suppose we had the chance to start [...]
With a combination of the Internet and public domain material, some students have less to carry to class. Yay to fewer back problems!
National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition has an update on the tension between the music industry and certain music fan weblogs. Some record labels tolerate group music fan sites. A blogger at one of the sites recently received a threat of legal action against a special MP3 he posted from a company some labels use to [...]
Here’s another real example of why everyone should use caution when posting material without proper attribution and/or permission. According to CNN, the celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com is the target of several lawsuits by various companies who found their images of celebrities posted without permission on the site. At least one company complained to the site’s [...]
Y’all are probably familiar with the debates between the record companies, people who distribute music on the Internet, artists who, um, borrow melodies and pieces from other artists (sometimes called sampling), copyright law, and a bunch of other related issues. Here’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
I (finally) bought a copy of Jay-Z’s The [...]
Several articles report the lawsuit Viacom, which owns many cable television stations, brought against YouTube, an online site where people can post and watch videos—many of which are posted by contributors who want to freely share their work. This case could have ramifacations for many other Web sites where users can post a variety of [...]
Monday’s Wall Street Journal reports that there’s new company will begin testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients’ audio, video, images and text, potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.
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Over on PressThink, the weblog of New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, Lisa Williams, whom I know through blog group, shares some really exciting news: 96 news sites owned by GateHouse Media are now sharing content via Creative Commons licenses. Not only is this news really exciting for copyright law, but it should have [...]
The ResourceShelf shares some thoughts on copyright and YouTube. What is the role of sites like these that post community media in informing their users about copyright law? How can they prevent violators from posting non-compliant material?
"Digital music purchasing has not yet fundamentally changed the way in which digital music customers buy music."
From Slashdot to the BBC to Jupiter Research, I traced a trail of information to learn about a report saying iPod owners are more likely to get their music from CDs–either CDs they already own or CDs they purchase–than [...]