BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I have branded myself outsider, if not outcast, in some weblogging circles by not embracing Creative Commons without hesitation, and not being 100% behind the anti-copyright/pro-public domain movement. (For what it’s worth, I am behind Imaginative Pastures.) Scott Andrew LePera wrote an excellent posting saying very nice things about my Mockingbird’s Wish. His post also […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. UpdateOf course, I realize that I’m probably a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l alone in the viewpoint I’m expressing in this post. Which is a true measure of freedom to speak — when you can speak amidst your peers and not get stoned. (Damn, did I just get hit by a falling link?) And no, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote and subsequently pulled a posting yesterday, about the Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision. I pulled the post because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to deal with the consequences of my writing. I knew that I was not following the ‘popular’ weblogging path in my post. However, I believe in what […]
Update: Larry Stanton in my comments referred to posts by Jack Balkin about the First Amendment clause issue of Eldred vs. Ashcroft. This gentlemen is a constitutional lawyer specializing in first amendment law, and his posts on this issue, here, here, and here are rich reading — clear explanations from an expert’s viewpoint. As I said earlier, I know that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The text within this weblog posting is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Please email author notice of re-use as a courtesy. Denise Howell is our first non-CC lawyer taking a walk on the Creative Commons wild side — she licensed her weblog. I liked Denise’s write-up of the process, including clear […]