Tag: Intellectual property law
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Everything is a Remix
Dunno how I missed Everything is a Remix series on copyright and ideas by Kirby Ferguson – especially the last episode which spells out some of the big issues for copyright and IP law (and also includes The Kleptones in it!). With the world in need of good ideas how to stop climate change, how…
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Copyright State of Mind
I cautiously welcome the new proposed changes to UK copyright law to allow format shifting (ie. what pretty much everyone does already, which is copy CDs they own onto their iPods or computers, crazily this has been officially illegal) and parodies – like the excellent Newport State of Mind above. Cautious because we’ve been here…
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Copyright Criminals and the Funky Drummer
Copyright Criminals – the 2009 documentary have released a special DVD edition with extras from the likes of Clyde Stubblefield (the original Funky Drummer – although I dispute the ‘Most sampled drummer’ tag as Greg Coleman who did Amen break in the Winstons has been sampled in many more songs since 1989!). So to promote…
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UK democracy with a copyright symbol
Crazy world where a Brighton and Hove local councillor can get sanctioned because of copying a council’s public web stream to YouTube without editing them. Yes this is the silliness of UK’s crown copyright and other laws – public money or public office does not automatically mean public domain, sadly. Hence why rx could happily…
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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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The Videotones are here – Welcome Back by The Kleptones (Instamatic video mashup)
New video mash from me – this time part of what is a collaborative project currently known as The Videotones (also on YouTube), mashing up the whole of the excellent ‘Uptime / Downtime’ by The Kleptones – there will be more mashup by myself and many other talented video mashup and VJ people appearing over…