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Intellectual Property and Culture
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Intellectual Property and Culture
Mick, music, money
05.27.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsOn the heels of the Exile on Main St.’s reissue, Mick Jagger basically tells BBC news that he doesn’t expect to make a fortune off royalties anymore. And he has one of the best perspectives on the post-material media market I’ve heard. This from an old timer.
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Intellectual Property and Culture, tech web toys
“Oh, the holes I punched in this raincoat? It’s a starter raincoat. Half price.”
04.21.09 | Permalink | 4 CommentsMicrosoft confirms grossly shortsighted plans to release crippled Windows 7 SKU for netbooks and developing markets.
I don’t mean to hate on MSFT again. In fact, I’m mostly just tired of spending energy, positive or negative, on that behemoth. I’m not alone. I’ve seen even among dedicated Mac-folks an optimism, a rooting-for-ness surrounding Windows 7. Â My [...] -
Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy, mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
We have a winner: LeRoy E. Myers
Ted Stevens honorary Lawmaker of the Week Award: LeRoy E. Myers, Jr, Maryland House of Delegates, District 1C
Open Curtain: LeRoy sits down in his bedroom to watch several torporous hours of old M*A*S*H episodes on YouTube before slipping into an empty vastness of sleep. We watch as he heaves a familiar end-of-the-day sigh, kicks off [...] -
Intellectual Property and Culture, mine media minutia
Godtube is slick
01.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI just finished hunting around for a good primer on fair use to ref in a piece on the prognosis of the same in 2008. Turns out the Center for Social Media at American U. just released a solid report. So that’s taken care of. BUT, you won’t believe what I found it the process! [...]
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Intellectual Property and Culture
Microsoft will soon ditch EMI DRM on its Zune Marketplace.
And hopefully the trend will spread by virtue of market necessity to remain competitive.
via Boing Boing
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Intellectual Property and Culture, tech web toys
EMI dunks it’s foot in the non-DRM waters, and the copyright issues therein
04.02.07 | Permalink | 83 CommentsEMI has announced that, in partnership with Apple Inc, it will begin in May to offer it's nearly full catalogue - minus still the Beatles - for purchase without DRM from the iTunes music store. DRM stands for "digital rights management" and has been pervasively implemented in the digital sales of major label music. The [...]
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Intellectual Property and Culture
1,000,000 served: open culture,distributive technology, and copyright.
The online service Jamendo announced today that one million albums have been distributed through their service, free and licensed under the Creative Commons, by individuals globally. One million albums in the US is certified platinum, and that Jamendo has had this success is significant, especially given that these are albums created by artists whom are [...]
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Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy
Creative Jets from Brazil: an early model of open information policy
03.23.07 | Permalink | 76 CommentsLitman made a brief mention of how other nations are opening up their information policy as the U.S. codifies more and more mechanisms of control.(find page) She stops with that assertion, however, and leaves the details hanging. This brevity of mention make sense given her focus on specific digital copyright law rather than broader information [...]
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Intellectual Property and Culture
IP in the Press: Pay-per-listen ruling from the CRB
03.21.07 | Permalink | 67 CommentsThe Copyright Royalty Board, a panel within the Library of Congress, ruled on March 2 that broadcasters of radio over the web must pay a .08 cent fee - rising to .19 cents in 2010 - to the copyright owner every time a listener hears a song, the NYT reports. Futher, each channel must [...]
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Intellectual Property and Culture
What about this ethics stuff anyway?
It occurs to me that I have not given adequate thought to what I mean by calling my work this semester a study on intellectual property ethics. This is largely due to my civilian understanding of ethics itself. Like anyone, I understand that ethical questions are those of right and wrong, of value [...]
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