Archive for the ‘Open News’ Category
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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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Whatever you think of Paul Coelho and The Alchmeist, the fact that a best selling author has realized giving his work away enlarges his potential audience says something about the potential of these new distribution models and the power of open and free media.
There is no change to the licensing ...
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