Archive for the ‘Intellectual property issues’ Category
Monday, March 10th, 2008
To be a satirist necessitates a certain thickness of skin. You're going to be upsetting people (if you do it properly), and need to be comfortable staring them down. So what do you do when you get a letter from a potential target complaining about a satire that never actually ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
The EU commission is proposing to extend copyright terms for performers of music, to match the existing terms for composers. The notion of retroactive extension is problematic (though not unprecedented), but there are some interesting aspects to the proposal:For session musicians, the record companies will set up a fund reserving at least ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
The Writers' strike has garnered quite a bit of support, both from other entertainment workers and from the wider public. One idea for support that originated with fans, before being picked up by the union, is to send pencils to the media moguls that run 6 of the major companies ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
This week's show is now online. It lasts just around an hour, and features Bob Naiman and myself discussing Pakistan, Iran, and the success of Brazil's AIDS drugs policy. Locally we discuss SEIU's possible strike and the growing support from the campus community, and the CCHCC protest about the exclusion ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
As the Writers' strike continues into a second week, word of an interesting solidarity action as many of the blogs that usually cover the content generated by these writers are 'going dark' for a day to express their support. This at the same time that another group of writers, working ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
An intriguing little debate happening over at Wikimedia-UK where there's interest in the Royal Society's decision to put copies of all their journals, going back to 1665, online. The rub is that the free access to the journals lasts only through to December, with the material going behind a pay-wall ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
...is my solution to this problem - the hype of of the joined-up internet, without the intellectual property craziness.
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
The MCPS and PRS in the United Kingdom have just launched a licensing scheme for music in podcasts. Interestingly, it allows non-DRM'd podcasts, but only if the first and last 10 seconds of the track are obscured with speech or a station ID. That's a long fade. It also appears ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Over at Boing Boing Cory points to a new paper by Siva Vaidhyanathan proposing a new 'interdisciplinary discipline' of Critical Information Studies. The short blurb I've read so far sounds very like the areas covered by Political Economy of media, and more generally, the sort of work that students and ...
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Each morning, six days a week, I get a mail from The Irish Times, with information about the stories appearing in that day's paper. At the end of the email is a copyright notice, which reads in part:Articles and information appearing in The Irish Times News Digest are owned by ...
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