Archive for February, 2006
Friday, February 24th, 2006
If you care about music and/or copyright, watch this documentary (of sorts; you'll see) about the Amen Break now. (Takes forever to load/is very big; suck it up.)
Thanks to Bethany Klein for the link. Also via BoingBoing.
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
AM New York is scared that it will under the new telecomm act.
Link via FreePress.
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
It appears as though the House Energy & Commerce Committee has nixed net neutrality from the new telecomm act.
Quoth Cartman, "Weeeeeeak!"
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Care to join Nelson & the rest of Free Culture Swarthmore as they protest digital restrictions on the music you buy?
The protest is at noon this Saturday at Tower Records at 610 South Street in Philly. See the press release for more. Also, feel free to hotmail.com">contact me.
Here's a map ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Here's a brief coaching session from Seth Finkelstein. He tells you how win exemptions from the DMCA ban on circumventing access controls.
This is both more directly useful and easier to read than my writing on the proceedings. Nonetheless, Seth did give me a link right after I posted Catch 1201 ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Here's sort of a puzzling article in the New York Times. The Times charges for archived content, so here's the long and the short of it:WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Via Boing Boing:
Marybeth Peters, the Register of Copyrights, has publicly stated that the copyright term is too long. In context, she effectively says that it's been hijacked and turned from a law designed to benefit the public interest to one designed to benefit publishers, though this is implicit.
Perhaps I've been ...
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Here's a thoughtful piece by the BBC about why music copyrights--yes, even in Beatles records--should be allowed to expire after 50 years.
The article only advocates allowing the mechanical licenses to expire, not the copyright in the song (which lasts for the life of the artist plus 70 years). The latter ...
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
As seen here.
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Just check out the Brrreeeport phenom. Apparently, it started here. It's almost as much fun as the miserable failure googlebomb.
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