Tag: fair use
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RC 205: Royal Dreading
A Post-Coachella show and what could be more English to come back to, a cauldron of self-hatred doffing our (dutch) caps at our overlords than a Royale Wedding with Cheese? So inevitably as everyone is totally sick of it after the event (and during and before…) so this show has a theme of royal dreading…
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Mark Hosler of Negativland on Creative Commons
Mark Hosler talking in 2006 – I didn’t know Negativland was involved in the creation of the Creative Commons sampling license. 😀 Love the comments about idealism, artistic and creative control being impossible, Marky Mark and that advertising is not free speech. And via Eric Kleptone is some documentary footage of the True/False tour, and…
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…
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Lawrence Lessig gets DMCA’d for fair use by Warners
More silliness from Warners, who after nixing my video and many other peoples seem to be taking over EMI’s previous Public Enemy #1 Evil spot really quickly. So you have a talk about copyright by Lawrence Lessig, a leading expert and thinker in the field, founder of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford…
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Warners Takedown – EFF want to hear
Readers of Radio Clash will know what Warner Media Group did to my Neon Sex People video mashup on YouTube (NSFW – audio and text contains a ‘message’ for WMG and uses music from a great unsigned artist Playgyrl Slim). Annoying, especially as Depeche Mode USED to be on EMI and somehow have transmogrified over…
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Orphans and Widows
Following on from a Boing Boing post – and this great article by Mark Dery and have been researching this new Orphan Works Act and have been rather disturbed and worried. It reads like a land-grab on Intellectual Property rights that only the rich stock libraries or famous artists could afford to register or submit…