Archive for the ‘Free Culture’ Category
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Interesting article at the Independent about giving away free music downloads:
The record industry has reached a strange pass when it makes more economic sense to give away an entire album than to spend the money needed to persuade people to buy it. But, when it comes to the process of ...
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
In reaction to the Smithsonian's recent deal with Showtime, Design Observer discusses the "erosion of fair use and the public domain in America." It's nice to see a carefully reasoned essay on this subject on a design blog, as many graphic designers' knee-jerk reaction to IP reform is to complain ...
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
a breakthrough for the creative commons: the cc licenses are now finally available in (simplified) chinese, with some help from renmin university. the enablers and constraints on its diffusion process and to what degree these will be 'culturally' influenced will be a fascinating development to watch itself unfold in the ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
In today's Philadelphia Weekly, on page 18, there's a picture of me holding a flyer that says "Are you buying a dangerous CD?"
The story, Copy Cats, is another great media clipping covering the antics of FreeCulture.org.
Saturday, we were protesting outside Tower Records on South St.
We believe that the major ...
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