Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Copyright on Dec 19th, 2008
Good news for a snowbound morning: The RIAA has announced that it will not file any more lawsuits against alleged music pirates.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003. Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little [...]
Posted in Musings on Dec 12th, 2008
A few weeks ago, I gave a guest lecture in a class on intellectual property and information law (SI 519) at Michigan’s School of Information, a class in which I was a student just a few years ago. The Google Book Search settlement had just been announced, so my original plans for talking about the [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Dec 7th, 2008
Creative Commons has put out a call for videos inviting people to explain, in 90 seconds or less, what they love about Creative Commons. I’ve never made a video like this before, but I decided to give it a shot. I used iMovieHD. It’s pretty amazing that a piece of software like that just comes [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Dec 5th, 2008
For my readers in the Ann Arbor area, I wanted to let you know about the Creative Commons Happy Birthday Happy Hour that I’m helping to plan. You’re all invited. Bring your friends.
Creative Commons is turning 6, and Ann Arbor is joining the worldwide celebration! We’re having a Happy Birthday Happy Hour for all [...]
Posted in Copyright, Digital Culture on Dec 1st, 2008
In last week’s Screens Issue of the New York Times Magazine, Kevin Kelly had a long article called “Becoming Screen Literate.” I first became aware of Kevin Kelly and his greatness when I read another of his NYT Magazine articles in May 2006, Scan This Book, about the impact of mass digitization on the future [...]
