BurningbirdCopyright law and copyright cases
Dave Shea has a set of images at his web site, depicting a photograph being altered in progressive stages. He asks the question: Assuming the photo I started with was copyrighted by someone else and I wasn’t licensed to use it, at which step does the design process below does the work become ‘legitimate’? I gather […]
Joe Shelby, in the comments associated with my last posting made a good point about “Echo” as name of this weblogging initiative: Echo is already a name for a product, a Java web application framework, that just released its 1.0 earlier this month, and very nicely under the LGPL license. By choosing “Echo”, the Wiki participants have […]
Thanks for well wishing. The suggestion of tea was a good one, but unfortunately I can’t drink any acidic juice such as OJ, as it hurts my throat more than a little. Doing a bit of catch up. There were a couple of items of RDF I had to respond to over at Practical RDF, both […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A quick note — Tim Hadley wrote a very detailed careful analysis of the Creative Commons license from the perspective of webloggers in general, Movable Type specifically. In particular the section that relates to the permanence of a CC license is worth extremely careful perusal if you’re thinking of pushing the button […]
Unfortunately, I came down with the same flu that’s hit so many others. This and a nasty snow storm that just blew in are conspiring to keep me from my much needed walks and explorations, dammit. So I might as well work on the edits for Practical RDF, and some tech tweaks around here. One […]