Ourmedia.org, the nonprofit citizens media site, turns 6 months old today (we launched March 21). To help celebrate, I made an 11-minute video about mash-ups and fair use in the digital age. More details at Darknet.com. (Ourmedia page | play video)
Digital rights & copyright
RU interviews me, I interview him
I just published an 8-minute video interview I conducted with RU Sirius, Sherry Miller and Jeff Diehl at RU’s NeoFiles show on the Mondo Globo Network in San Francisco. We discuss their podcasting setup and plans to conquer the media world. (Ourmedia page | MPEG-4 video) Meantime, RU Sirius conducted a 30-minute interview with me […]
EFF announces contest winners
I was a judge, along with Susan Crawford, Mike Godwin, Xeni Jardin, and Ernest Miller, in a contest marking the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s 15th anniversary. The EFF held a Blog-a-thon to mark the occasion, inviting people to write about what digital rights means to them, and how they became active in the movement that the […]
Fair use of photos on blogs
Fascinating discussion going on at Weblogs Inc.’s Nanopublishing weblog: Fair use of photos on blogs … the photographers speak out. Jason Calacanis writes: I had dinner with two big name photographers in L.A. recently. These are folks who’s name you might recognize even if you are not in the photography industry. I asked them both […]
Stop the INDUCE Act
The most serious threat to digital liberties in years is now moving ahead in Congress. I mentioned the INDUCE (Inducing Infringement of Copyrights) Act before I left on vacation, and last week Sen. Orrin Hatch (with Sen. Patrick Leahy’s support) formally introduced the Senate bill. As Declan McCullagh reported in CNET News.com, the act would […]