Archive for the ‘Open News’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This story is admittedly dated, but still worth pointing out. The books in questions are ebooks and apparently come without any DRM. The offer does require you to give up a little bit of personal info and the links to download the titles come in the form of ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
PC Haring on Twitter recently asked me what happened with the Harvard vote, and then I blushed as a sloppy blogger who didn't follow up on the news (yeah, but I don't think the New York Times followed up on it either!). So this morning I went looking for the ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Under US copyright, facts about the world are not copyrightable. They are not patentable either but that doesn't stop some entities from charging for access to such data. Especially when it is gather at expense. I'm guessing that is why the Australian government is planning an experiment ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Man I love Twitter - I've been out of the loop for a while due to my mac being in the shop and struggling with my dinosaur PC is no fun, sorry for my absence. But today Paul Jones from UNC mentioned this on Twitter and I got all giddy.
Turns ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Boing Boing has the story. To celebrate the seventh anniversary of his blog, with his publisher's approval, Gaiman will be making one of his books available for free online, for a month. The implication is that if this experiment works well, more of his works may be made ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
This story doesn't exactly involve open media, per se, but I thought it was a novel use of an open platform. The organizers of the Cinequest Film Festival are use file sharing to handling submission and viewer voting on potential entrants.
I am a little annoyed at the editorial remarks ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
I wrote last week about KODA, the Danish royalty collecting society, allowing Tone and her label, Urlyd, to release her new album, Small Arm of Sea, under a CC license without having to forego royalty collection for radio play. Traditionally, collecting societies have refused to collect for works artists ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
I saw this on Boing Boing last week and discussed it on my last podcast.
In book publishing, there are many examples of CC works being licensed commercially without conflict, though there is much discussion about what type of author this benefits most, newer ones or established. The article claims ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
BoingBoing reports about a rotting Detroit book depository (I'd post a pic here, but they're listed as no unauthorized use). It is a poster child for urban decay. As a writer I look at the millions of words rotting away, all the work that went into those books, and how ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
I saw a pointer to this one minute video over on the Creative Commons blog. I love stories and discussions that unpack the different motivations behind both sharing and control. This video highlights the immense shift in norms, that the average person, at least in the currently upcoming ...
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