Quick note — Beckham’s tattoo artist threatened suit over some ink that he put on Beck, but I don’t believe a suit was filed. This was in the UK in 2005. Full story from the Mirror. Someone mentioned after the conference that a gentleman was asked by Disney to remove some Disney-related ink after visiting [...]

Can copyright extend to the human body? My slides from my presentation last week exploring this question, up on the Gikii 2 website, got boing boinged. So here is a post about some of the issues that come up, including those that came up in the BoingBoing forum. Tattoos and “works for hire” US copyright [...]

[cross posted at opencontentlawyer.com] One of the areas that I will be posting on in the next couple of weeks is open data. My latest project is to re-draft an existing open data licence into a format for worldwide use, much in the same vein of Creative Commons. If you have an interest in open [...]

(Via electronic museum.) Smithsonian copyright revisited: “ Back in May 2007, there was a sudden spike in interest around the ‘outing’ of over 6,000 images from Smithsonian Images by a body calling itself public.resource.org. Essentially, they consider the images to be largely public domain, and therefore did something about it, scraping them from the Smithsonian [...]

I am presenting on copyright and tattoos! GikII 2 programme available: “Those interested in the GikII 2 (pronounced geeky) workshop, which will take place on September 19 at UCL, London, will be delighted to know that the provisional programme is now online. Yours Truly will present a paper entitled ‘From Zero to Hero: Building a [...]

In part of my research for the Eduserv study on the use of open content licences, such as Creative Commons, by cultural heritage organisations, I ran into Spoken Word Services.  This site is an audio archive of BBC material held for access by educational institutions. It has an extremely informal End User Licence Agreement (EULA). [...]

Session 4 and 5 Collecting societies Paul Keller of CC Netherlands updated the group on collecting socities. Key points: Two approches to Collecting Societies and their interaction with CC: A clause to allow people to opt out of the Collecting Societies (for jurisdictions that mandate their use). A hybrid approach where members (authors/owners) can do [...]