Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited’s Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it’s one of the most depressing things he’s read. Shepherd wrote: I’m not going to pick a fight with the Cory Doctorows of the world because they’re far more informed and cleverer than me, but let’s […]
Category: Copyright
Copyright law and copyright cases
The EFF’s Blogger legal guide
As much as I’ve tweaked the issue of Creative Commons and weblogging accountability, I would be remiss if I didn’t provide a link to EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers. The guide provides some good overview of issues such as legal liability, copyright, and defamation. It isn’t detailed, but chances are if you need detail, you probably […]
What we hear
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Lawrence Lessig posted a graphic of the spread of Creative Commons throughout the world. He used some interesting words to describe the colors: As of Thursday, the current spread of Creative Commons. The green are countries where the project has launched. The yellow are close. The red is yet to be liberated. (em. […]
Creative Commons follow up
Dennis Kennedy wrote an excellent follow-up post on the Creative Commons discussion this weekend. Excellent. I particularly wanted to note the following: One of my biggest concerns about the Creative Commons license has been the lack of guidance from CC on practical interpretation and enforcement issues. I’ve held off commenting on the issue Shelley raised because I […]
The copyright theme
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I thought I would take my new Wordform theme out for a spin, let you all see what it looks like. It’s a work in progress, so it may not show correctly in all browsers. I was inspired by the look at Corante’s Between Lawyers. Well, actually more than inspired — […]
