Just back from Creative Commons‘ sixth birthday party at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. (I think I’ve been to most of CC’s birthday bashes. Here’s my coverage from last year.) Creative Commons — I think of it as a service that lets you fine-tune your copyright (haven’t seen a more succinct definition anywhere) — […]
Digital rights & copyright
‘Remix’ calls for a truce in the copyright wars
Two book reviews out today. San Jose Mercury News: Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Remix, calls for a truce in the copyright wars. Excerpt: Instead of re-examining and perhaps reconsidering a losing strategy, the industry has expanded the battlefield. It is no longer only fighting people who share music online, but also cracking down on fans […]
Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has just released an important new report: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, which builds on the Center’s findings from its Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User- Generated Video report. (The report might well have been called: How […]