I heard MC Lars’ Download This Song on the radio and liked it a lot, so I did. It’s kind of an “in your face” piece about copyright law, music, downloading, and the recording industry. Not to mention that he samples Iggy Pop’s The Passenger, too.
Chances are pretty good MC Lars might have been a [...]
beSpacific mentions a searchable version of the U.S. Copyright Law as an ebook. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws are also available.
Whoops! My speech recognition software is posting to my weblog without my permission! And while I’m at work, too! Silly microphone! We’re supposed to be working on that database~
Addendum: So, uh, what I meant to say before my speech recognition software decided to blog without me is:
This weekend is ArtBeat in Somerville, Massachusetts–a festival of [...]
This fun site promotes community music sharing. A project of Creative Commons, it gives people a way to share their music.
Another article from The Boston Globe
The American Library Association Washington Office is asking for feedback regarding orphaned works and their status under copyright law.
"The library community will be filing comments with the U.S. Copyright Office in support of a proposal to change copyright law to address issues surrounding orphan works. Orphan works are those copyrighted works whose owners are difficult [...]
Jenny Levine has information about American Library Association efforts against the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadcast Flag rule. A broadcast flag is a code used in digital television signals intended to prevent the further distribution of the show over the Internet. Librarians are concerned the rule could interfere with protections in the TEACH Act educators and [...]
Here’s an item on Slashdot exploring the proper use of a trademarked name in a free distribution of software. Jamesday summarizes some of the issues in a comment.
Whoops. Meant to blog this earlier.
Is there anything else I need to blog tonight or can I go to sleep?
A number of scholarly publishers are concerned that Google’s plan to digitize library collections won’t work with copyright law. The journal Nature has more details.
From Library Link of the Day