I’ve met both James Patterson and Nora Roberts which maybe made me laugh at this all the more.
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Thanks PALS!
09
May 2008
Sorry for not posting this yesterday but I’d like to officially thank my hosts and all the attendees of the Prairie Area Library System’s PALS Day this past Wednesday. The weather was perfect (sunny on the day I got to hike through the woods, and rainy while we had to be inside for the presentations) and I wish I could steal your park and its facilities and transport them to about 10 miles outside of Lincoln, NE. Everyone was wonderful to me and made me feel welcome. Feel free to invite me back any time.
Category: conference, palsday2008
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Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song
09
May 2008
Woah! It looks like Happy Birthday might not actually be under copyright.
"Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many – including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft – have portrayed it as an unoriginal work that is hardly worthy of copyright protection, but nonetheless remains under copyright. Yet close historical scrutiny reveals both of those assumptions to be false. The song that became "Happy Birthday to You," originally written with different lyrics as "Good Morning to All," was the product of intense creative labor, undertaken with copyright protection in mind. However, it is almost certainly no longer under copyright, due to a lack of evidence about who wrote the words; defective copyright notice; and a failure to file a proper renewal application.
SSRN-Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song by Robert Brauneis
Category: copyright, music, video, youtube
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One bielyon dollars!
09
May 2008
Ok, I exaggerate a little but this is getting a smidge ridiculous. The MPAA is demanding $15.4 million from The Pirate Bay to "cover the damages they suffered from 4 movies and 13 TV-episodes that were made available via the popular BitTorrent tracker". Sorry, but by that logic, never mind the insane math involved in coming up with that number, the MPAA should be suing Google too since I can find torrents of The Pink Panther via their search engine too.
Pirate Bay’s response: “The worst thing is that I lost 100 kronor on a bet on the number they would come up with,” Sunde added. “And, it sucks that they didn’t claim more than for Napster and the other sites. It’s cooler to break the record.”
Category: bittorrent, copyright
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Meme: Passion Quilt
09
May 2008
I haven’t officially been tagged with this meme to my knowledge but I was inspired this morning by the combination of a quote from a book I’m reading and preparing for a Library 2.0 presentation next week. So, here’s my entry:
Who am I tagging? Many I know have already done this but I’m sure I’ve missed a few so if you’ve already done this, my apologies:
3 Simple Meme Rules:
- Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.
- Title your blog post "Meme: Passion Quilt" and link back to this blog entry.
- Include links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.
Category: library 2.0, meme
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I’m not a knitter but I’ve been watching a lot of the photos on Flickr (especially the recent Face of Bo and Adipose creations) and wishing someone would love me enough to knit some of these for me. So when I read the story of the person who’s received a cease and desist from the BBC for posting homebrew knitting patters online I felt just a little sick.
“We note that you are supplying DR WHO items, and using trade marks and copyright owned by BBC. You have not been given permission to use the DR WHO brand and we ask that you remove from your site any designs connected with DR WHO. Please reply acknowledging receipt of this email, and confirm that you will remove the DR WHO items as requested.”
Really, who is this hurting? No money is changing hands and the BBC isn’t loosing any market share since they’re offering no such thing officially. Hey Russell, what do you think about this?
Read more and link to the full story on the The Open Rights Group Blog.
Category: copyright, doctor who
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