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What's In A Name? The Double-Binds Inherent in Controlling Cultural Terms
alli.fish, Tucson/Irvine/Bangalore (India) (United States) · Jun 30th, 2008 5:11 pm · 33 votes · no comments made
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Almost every morning as I drink my first cup of morning coffee I go online to read the news, visit a few blogs (usually the less-than-thought provoking gossip blogs), and scan through my email. Without fail I collect several stories from each of these sources (even the gossip blogs!) relating to the bizarre attempts of various individuals and groups to determine who has the legal... [ read ]
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NIN gives the record industry The Slip ... again!
Paul Jacobson, Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Jul 01st, 2008 5:32 pm · 25 votes · no comments made
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NIN (aka Nine Inch Nails) has released yet another album for free download online. NIN has been doing this for sometime now. They released their album Year Zero for download using Garageband and Logic formats so fans could really get into the nuts and bolts of their tracks and remix them. They also released Ghosts I to IV in a range of options from free downloads to super duper... [ read ]
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Organisation Spotlight: Safe Creative
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A few years ago Juan Palacio, a Spanish software expert, wrote a book and wanted to share it on the Internet as a PDF document. This got him wondering whether it is possible to register the file’s original creator, and after some research he found that in his native country this was not possible unless he printed the book out on paper first. The lack of facilities to register digital... [ read ]
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Open Visualisation in a Deluge of Data
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Social networking, blogging, tagging, recommender systems, and other collaborative technologies have changed the face of the Internet, and life as we know it. For sociologists, anthropologists, and even physicists and mathematicians, such services have provided a constant stream of data and information about the lives of millions of people. Like anyone who has observed a visualised... [ read ]
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Tall Tales about Copyright law
Prashant (India) · Jun 25th, 2008 11:18 pm · 30 votes · 2 comments
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In the media, mentions of copyright law are invariably coupled with shrill narrations about piracy. Two images are typically conjured in these narratives: Firstly, that of a prosperous national industry going to seed only because of piracy. For instance, the following passage from a thoroughly enjoyable account of piracy in Mumbai:
“Such printing presses in New Delhi, Mumbai,... [ read ]
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BISA Copyright Review: K.I.S.S
Paul Jacobson, Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Jun 23rd, 2008 6:36 pm · 20 votes · no comments made
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There seems to be a number of copyright review processes underway these days and thank goodness for that. What strikes me is how important it is that we lawyers keep the process intelligible to the general public despite the tendency and temptation to completely geek out (in the legal sense). Lawrence Liang spoke about this a little in his introduction to the BISA (Brazil, India... [ read ]
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Comparative Study of Copyright in Brazil, India and South Africa
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This article is an introduction to the BISA Copyright Review project, a comparative project being run by FGV, The Alternative Law Forum and iCommons.
An Introduction
By Lawrence Liang
Any study that attempts to investigate three of the most important countries from Asia, Latin America and Africa has a rather heavy representational burden placed on it. Before embarking on... [ read ]
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Freedom of Expression in Mother India (Part 1): The Work of MF Husain
alli.fish, Tucson/Irvine/Bangalore (India) (United States) · Jun 04th, 2008 4:38 pm · 25 votes · no comments made
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In early May 2008 the Delhi High Court, through an opinion authored by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, issued a decision in a case involving a nude painting by the renowned artist Maqbool Fidaq Husain (best known as MF Husain). Born in 1915 to a Muslim family in the state of Maharashtra, MF Husain is a highly acclaimed artist who many consider to be the father of modern Indian art and... [ read ]
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Web Search & CC Licenses
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Jun 09th, 2008 4:27 pm · 16 votes · 1 comment
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How many web search engines actually allow to filter for Creative Commons-licensed materials? How many websites allow you to search for CC-licensed images only? How about videos and audio materials? I did a quick survey of a number of (English-language) websites.
CC licenses and their accompanying symbols basically announce that a text/image/video/audio material is in the public... [ read ]
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Freeing the public domain by CC licensing
Alek Tarkowski, Warszawa (Poland) · Jun 01st, 2007 9:15 am · 34 votes · 5 comments
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A group called Public Resource is protesting the actions of American Smithsonian Institute, which at the site SmithsonianImages.SI.Edu asserts copyright to over 6000 historical photographs, many of which are in the public domain according to the activists.
The group has downloaded low quality scans available for free (high quality versions have to be bought from the Smithsonian)... [ read ]
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New upgrades to icommons.org
We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video... more
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