Tag: Intellectual Property
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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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Banksy on Advertising
Although I think there is some irony here with Banksy’s now superstar status and the fact some could compare having his street art pop up is also like someone throwing a brick to your head (and I won’t even go into the copyright controversy from the Bristol Museum exhibition) I think the message is a…
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You Don’t Own MP3, I’m not just one of your many toys…
One of the questions that is thrown around is ‘why do people pirate software or MP3s?’ when there are perfectly good alternatives that are legal. Well one reason might be these ‘legal’ alternatives mostly have license agreements you don’t actually OWN any of it. You rent it with a license that can be taken away…
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Death of the single, Music Industry is dead right?
Well what with all the file sharing and like it must be hitting sales. What? No? Who says? The British Phonographic Industry? The same ones that wrote the disconnection clause in the Digital Economy Act? Fed spiked and overdramatic info to MPs that influenced the debate? And the ones that went loggerheads with MI5 and…
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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…