An excellent write-up on copyright in Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
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Posts Tagged “Copyright”
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09
2009
 
Internet Clean FeedPosted by: jlerossignol in Teaching, tags: censorship, Copyright, free, free speech, Info TechAt the moment, there is a push by the Australian Government to control the Internet information into Australia with the Clean feed. This is been opposed by the Electronic Frontiers Australia with the No Clean Feed. This is a matter where you need to become informed before you are not allowed to any-more!
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09
2009
Google steals orphaned booksPosted by: jlerossignol in Teaching, tags: Copyright, google, Info Tech, Intellectual Property, VET MultimediaIn recent news (Amazon: Google Books deal an ‘unprecedented’ copyright hack) Google is trying to publish out-of-print (or orphaned) books online without the explicit say so of the author or the publisher. The Google Book Settlement gives details of what Google is offering to publishers and authors. And to make things more interesting the Open Book Alliance whose members include Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft (Microsoft, Yahoo Join Google Books Opposition), is opposing Open Book Alliance to oppose Google Book deal. But this battle has been going on for some time Who Owns Online Books? Google captures an entire industry? The Wall Street Journal, Google’s Book Settlement Is a Ripoff for Authors (Why allow a single publisher to throw out a functioning copyright system?), which points out the breaking of the current Copyright System. But slashdot, has a somewhat more level view of what’s going on; Here are diametrically opposing view on what authors should do about the upcoming deadline to opt out of the Google Books settlement. Miracle Jones writes
“The William Morris Agency has come out strongly against the Google Books settlement for its clients, citing the fact that the settlement creates a non-competitive marketplace for a whole new product (orphan books), in addition to containing provisions that will make it impossible for writers to remove books from the database after 27 months have passed: ‘We believe that the license being given to Google to publish and display with impunity out-of-print “orphan” works (where the rights owner is unknown and estimated by the Financial Times to be between 2.8 and 5 million books out of 32 million books protected by copyright in the United States) will open the door to establishing Google as the most comprehensive database, potentially a monopoly, with unfair bargaining power.’”
On the other side of the debate, James Gleick writes
“With the deadline approaching for ‘opting out’ of the Google Books settlement, the Authors Guild has posted an aggressive explanation of who it thinks should do that: no one. Not a single author in the world, it argues, stands to benefit from removing himself or herself from the class. This comes as part of a new set of ‘Answers’ meant to push back against what the authors group thinks is widespread confusion about the settlement; they also address questions about just what kind of money we might be talking about, and what kind of control authors will have over Google’s use of their work.”
What does it mean if Google succeeds?
There are a million other questions that are dying to be asked, but I’ll leave that up to you.
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08
2009
Creative CommonsPosted by: jlerossignol in Teaching, tags: Copyright, Info Tech, legal issues, VET MultimediaThe Creative commons now has a search engine (http://search.creativecommons.org/)
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08
2009
Copyright in the Internet AgePosted by: jlerossignol in Uncategorized, tags: Copyright, Info Tech, VET MultimediaRachel Caine has posted a insightful piece on copyright and the Internet over on Lifejournal (http://rachelcaine.livejournal.com/124581.html?thread=3682469). What’s more interesting is the comments by Rachel and a guy from IsoHunt.
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02
2008
CopyrightPosted by: jlerossignol in Uncategorized, tags: Copyright, industry, Info Tech, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, VET MultimediaCopyright is a huge area of the multimedia and computing industries, because they all deal with created works. The main focus of multimedia is the creation of digital art using tools like PhotoShop, GIMP, Illustrator, InkScape, etc. And in the computing industry, games and application programming in particular, it is focused on written works. So both fall under the area of Intellectual Property (IP), Copyright, Trademarks, etc. Read the for some good advice about the subject in the artical Hey, That’s MY Game! Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games And here are my links about IP, http://del.icio.us/jlerossignol/ip |
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