Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism, HOWTO on Mar 18th, 2010
In general, I treat this blog as a professional outlet and try to keep my personal life out of it, but I had little online colliding of worlds recently and I decided it’s worth sharing here as well, with apologies for the blurring lines. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Creative Commons licenses [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Dec 1st, 2009
Here’s a post-Thanksgiving CC two-fer to kick off the holiday season…
1) Every year, Creative Commons holds a big fundraising campaign, and they ask a few members of the CC community to write letters explaining what makes CC so important and why they support it. This year I wrote one of those letters focusing on [...]
Posted in Creative Commons Evangelism on Sep 30th, 2009
A year in the making, Creative Commons just released the results of their investigation into how users and producers of content define noncommercial use. Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use” details the results of research gathered through online surveys of content creators and users in the U.S., open access [...]
Posted in Conferences, Copyright on Mar 12th, 2008
This was supposed to be a panel about piracy, and how to handle it when fans stop paying for your stuff and start filesharing. Instead, the panelists talked a lot about copyright and fair use, and how to draw the line when fans make potentially transformative, possibly infringing new works. It probably had to go [...]
