Via IPackets, IPac‘s newsletter had this about their ‘Your Senator Needs an iPod’ campaign: ~ iPods Galore A year ago, IPac launched the “Your Senator Needs an iPod” campaign to educate legislators about the value of balanced information policy (IP). Supporters like you helped raise enough money to send free culture-laden iPods to over a [...]

Okay, so I promise not to do too many of these, but I thought I’d share this clip on the Viacom / Youtube conflict from the Daily Show. UPDATE – Nevermind – I ran into the embed/ibed problem in WordPress!

So an earlier post led to quite a discussion about the use of licences within Flickr (thanks Abi and David) . I’ve been considering the issue a bit further, and as there were several searches in my logs for ‘are flickr photos in the public domain’ (ranked 4th in my Google results), I thought I’d [...]

Money-must it buy all I can get now Money-without it how far will I get now Money, Honey, hold it you’d be losing my respect now. Scottish band Bay City Rollers is suing Arista over royalties in Federal Court in New York. The damages are unspecified, but the band believes that it is owed millions. [...]

When I give talks to aspiring filmmakers, one of the points when I go over fair use that I regrettably have to make is that despite a clear fair use argument, if they are trying to get commercial release that they will need copyright clearance anyway. This is because of the difficulty of getting Errors [...]

Bill Patry has some notes from last weekend’s two-day symposium on appropriation art in NYC. Wished I could have been there, especially in light of Judge Leval’s comments: At the same time, Judge Leval agreed that while fair use was invented by judges for judges (in order to promote learning and creativity), too many judges [...]

This post over at House of Commons caught my eye because of its use of an image that appears to be something one would expect to be in the public domain, but is licensed under a Creative Commons licence.  It is just the type of image that one can find in the US Library of [...]