Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]
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Copyright law and copyright cases
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Den of thieves
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Mernit has a quote from professional photographer, Lane Hartwell, about setting her Flickr stream to private because of image theft. What spurred this on was the popular Web 2.0 Bubble video, which I also linked, and which didn’t credit any of the people whose work it used. Hartwell wrote: Matt Hempey, the creator […]
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Creative inevitability
It was a sense of inevitability that I read about the lawsuit against Creative Commons and Virgin Mobile, Australia. The suit came about because of the recent Virgin Mobile use of photos licensed for commercial use via a CC license. Not surprising to read Lawrence Lessig’s optimistic look at the issue, though his segue going from a thoughtful […]
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Artists create, developers hack
From the email list associated with the Creative Commons group, I found an interesting thread, where it seems many members of the organization believe that the non-commercial option in the CC licenses should be abolished. As one person wrote, works licensed under cc didn’t really challenged the dominant market paradigm. especially the most of them are licensed […]
Wayback Machine entry for post including comments. Rogers Cadenhead finds an ad featuring Molly Holzschlag. About my post, he wrote: Shelley Powers puts the blame for this squarely on Creative Commons for not educating users of its licenses. If you release photos for commercial reuse, but you don’t secure model releases from people they depict, you’re […]