Google Books to add Creative Commons books

Google Inc. is now enabling authors and publishers who release their work under Creative Commons licenses to distribute it through Google Books, a free service that allows users to search and read books online.

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How to buy a basic digital TV

By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

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Harry Potter and the Copyright Problem

It doesn’t help that you bear a passing resemblance to Heather Mills. Or that you’re vehemently trashing a printed collection of information (and its collector) you previously praised when it existed only in cyberspace. Or that you cried on the witness stand while doing so.

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TubeRadio…Listen While It Lasts…

So sad, but I can already see the writing on the wall with this site. Upon discovering TubeRadio (www.tuberadio.fm), I thought, 'What a great resource!' Here we have a mash up that allows you to listen to music from posted YouTube videos.

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In his newest book, novelist Mark Helprin sets out to single-handedly defend copyright from the barbarian freetard hordes. He advocates long-term copyright extensions and happily insults anyone who disagrees with him by comparing them to Idi Amin and Adolf Eichmann.

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A doctoral student crunches the numbers to determine whether releasing books through Creative Commons and other methods really does benefit authors and publishers.

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Today the BBC published the first episode of R&DTV, a Creative Commons licensed show that users are allowed to remix, redistribute and share. The first episode of the monthly technology show features Digg's Kevin Rose, among others.

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Creative Commons provides easy and effective ways to offer up your content without abandoning all rights to its use—free distribution might be allowed, for instance, but only as long as the author is attributed and the distribution is noncommercial.

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Obama's Change.gov site has dropped its "All Rights Reserved" notice and switched to the Creative Commons Attribution license, the most liberal of the CC licenses.

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Pool is a Creative Commons licensed social media project being developed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more.

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I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE "IP" court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them "open source") copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others.

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The outcome was predictable to anyone with an ice cream scoop worth of brain jelly slapped into their skull cavity, but professional psychic Uri Geller somehow didn't see it coming: his company, Explorologist Ltd., had its spoon bent by the EFF yesterday over a frivolous DMCA tak …

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Creative commons (the alternative to Copyright Licensing) continues to make strides in education and society. This new resource, Metrics, helps to show that.

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The Lessig Effect

In the move to a totally-open environment, before long you will begin looking at Creative Commons as a solution to content (hopefully!). In education, especially, we need to be cognizant of the resources available to us.

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In a post on the band's Web site, www.nin.com, the band's leader, Trent Reznor, said, "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one's on me."

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Australian scientists have developed a blood test for African sleeping sickness that does not require the fancy equipment found in upscale medical labs. Even better, they made the details of their work available for free by publishing a paper in the Feb.

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As readers of this blog know, two of my interests are photography and Open Source, so I'm naturally particularly interested in the way the two intersect with each other.

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A Texas family has dropped its lawsuit against the nonprofit Creative Commons copyright licensing organization, after an apparent misunderstanding over commercial use of a photo of a teenage member of the family.

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Back when I was writing software for PCs, it was pretty common to see licenses offering some program free "for noncommercial use" or some similar wording.

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Copyright Info and DMCA Takedown Form for Copyright Violations

Unfortunately, it is not unheard of for a third party to come onto Newsvine with intent to infringe upon our copyrighted materials.

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The agreement calls for definitive paperwork approved by both parties within 30 days with making developer snapshots of the archive available in early 2008. Public.Resource.Org is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in this transaction.

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Can I Get An Amem? (by Nate Harrison) is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break.

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ThinkFree, the leader in anytime, anywhere office productivity tools, gives back to the community with ThinkFree Docs. Your social networking site for office documents - think YouTube for word files, spreadsheets and presentations.

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A Texas family has sued Australia's Virgin Mobile phone company, claiming it caused their teenage daughter grief and humiliation by plastering her photo on billboards and website advertisements without consent.

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Why CC-BY is the Creative Commons Licensing Choice for Pros

For content professionals, CC-BY is the license of the future (or something similar, like OEL). Here's why:

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Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide ranging debate on the future of copyright.

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Will Social Networks Kill the RSS Reader?

I don't think the RSS reader will ever get mainstream adoption. The true awesomeness of RSS, which we have barely begun to experience, is going to be in machines splicing and remixing RSS feeds.

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Do you know the difference between copyright infringement and what constitutes Fair Use? For patriotic bloggers, this issue may not seem important, but we should understand the policies of the state and the sites of which we are a part.

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