Tag: Copyleft
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Neil Gaiman on Copyright
Every once in a while Open Rights Group which I support does something that really enforces why they need to exist – this interview from author Neil Gaiman about how ‘pirating’ his books actually increases sales (upto 3000%!) is one of them. Interesting how he sees it as a form of lending rather than something…
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Say something fffff.at & Greenpeace remixes
And a message we can all agree on 😉 Let yr local copylefter know when their shit’s been pulled 😉 And in other news, Greenpeace is looking for video remixes to shame HSBC who as well as being the World’s Shittest Bank also invent in Indonesian deforestation with companies like Sinar Mas despite greenwashing adverts…
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The Light of Pleasure (Dionysus vs Apollo) – Captain Obvious
Third act: Our hero Captain Obvious travels to Ancient Greece and Babylon in search of Dionysus, Apollo, Silenus and Bacchus for a Bacchanal and to Xanadu where did Kublai Khan a pleasure dome erect (trans: a right royal knees up). OK it’s not as pretentious as it sounds, but then again not many bootlegs contain…
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Vote Them Out + my donation to the cause
Vote Them Out – Jeremy Hunt by / image by Andrew Harrison/PA. Feel free to share this, although I don’t own the image – if that’s a problem use the CC one below. Also feel free to use, remix and adapt my bits, they’re fully Creative Commons After posting my LOOOOOONG list of MPs who…
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Google’s ‘blogocide’ deletes music blogs
(created with FAT’s great Google Tag script – love the ZEVS style one too) Apparently Google has deleted entirely several music blogs entirely for infringement of copyright – even the ones that posted tracks with permission from the record label, artists or management. I commented on this Guardian article, thought it bore repeating (and extending)…