BurningbirdCopyright law and copyright cases
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]