Ninth update (Sept 12): The class action lawyers have finally come out with their request to the judge to modify the settlement website. You can read their requested change in this court document. Don’t expect much. The main change is that they’ve extended that original 30 day preliminary allocation work time to 60 days. If […]
Category: Copyright
Copyright law and copyright cases
I’m writing a bigger piece on the Anthropic class action lawsuit, but I thought I’d do a quick update on the final settlement hearing yesterday. Well, that was interesting. The judge reminds me a bit of Mom, when you’re fibbing and she knows you’re fibbing and you know she knows you’re fibbing but she has […]
O’Reilly now has DRM free versions of some of its book available for the Kindle. Among the books are my own Painting the Web, Learning JavaScript, second edition, Practical RDF, and Adding Ajax. O’Reilly has been offering DRM free versions of the books at the O’Reilly site, but it’s only been lately that authors have been able to provide DRM […]
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Kindlegate
Being a Kindle owner, I’ve been following, and involved in, many discussions related to the recent DMCA take down notice that Amazon served on the eBook friendly site MobileRead. I’m too tuckered from arguing in other forums to say much now. At this time, all I’m going to do is list out pertinent articles and […]
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Appropriate the visual
Jonathon Delacour has an interesting writing on appropriation art, the controversy about the Obama HOPE poster, and Walker Evans. I must admit to being mostly ignorant about appropriation art, where the artist takes another work and either creates a variation of the work, as Shepard Fairey did with the HOPE poster; or actually makes a direct copy […]