Tag: lawrence lessig
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YouTuber gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven
Today’s entry in Copycrazy-right? is Marina from The Piano Keys, a musical blogger who does tutorials on how to play pieces on the piano for the last five years. She did a video on Piano Sonata No, 14 aka Moonlight Sonata, playing a piece written by Beethoven in 1801. She then got a copyright claim…
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Lawrence Lessig – I Was a Teenage Republican CC Supporter
http://blip.tv/lessig/tedx-talk-3328859 Genius, especially the end…I think as with Brown here, Clinton and Obama we expect the New Labour/Left wing/Democrats to ‘do the right thing’ with copyright and the internet (I’m reminded of my MP Glenda Jackson here – she’s really good and a socialist – apart from copyright; she seems to be siding with 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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The Pirate’s Dilemma
It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more…