TorrentFreak has a great post explaining some of the most common misconceptions about anti-piracy enforcement today. They are: There have been very few actual legal…
Tag: copyright
In Cory Doctorow’s latest Locus column he discusses the reproduction methodology of the dandelions (something I’m currently fighting in my own back year, literally,) and…
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…
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…
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…
Before you read this post be sure you’ve read these other posts and I don’t really feel like summarizing them, just responding to the issues…
In preparation for my upcoming Creative Commons presentation I’ve found myself reading copyright statements in books. I posted an amusing one last week. Here’s a…
I was saving this for my CC talk at CiL but it’s too funny not to post. All rights reserved under the International and Pan-…
I don’t usually cross-post between this personal blog and the office blog but a project I’ve been working on for about a month has just…
Granted, neither of them worry (officially) about book piracy but today’s xkcd makes me want to go read the new Harry Potter in a bookstore…