Last week it was the Eiffel Tower, now it’s Chicago’s Millenium Park and, in particular, the Bean. This week’s Chicago Reader relates the story of a local photographer’s run-in with security while trying to take photos of this public park. Article author Ben Joravsky contacted the park director’s office and got this response […]
Apparently so. It turns out that the company that did the lighting has copyrighted the work, so if you take a photo and publish it, it’s a violation of copyright.
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Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig, Open Source Development Labs general counsel Diane Peters and MIT’s Daniel Weitzner are announcing the new Software Freedom Law Center to provide free legal representation for open source developers.
Software Freedom Law Center website
News.com.com.com.com story
Lessig tells the story of his trip to Porto Alegre and experiences with Brazilian Minister of Culture, music star and free culture advocate Gilberto Gil.
SUMMARY: The Copyright Office seeks to examine the issues raised by “orphan works,” i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative efforts or making such […]
Via BB, Cory Doctorow has an interesting response to a recent announcement by Sony, Philips, Matsushita and Samsung that they are developing a common DRM system. He makes a concise argument explaining how DRM systems punish normal consumers rather than actual pirates.
Not one of these systems has ever prevented piracy or illegal copying. […]
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Wikipedia swatika entry
BBC swastika article
The BBC article is just a condensed version of the Wikipedia entry. Some lines are copied verbatim, like “The British author Rudyard Kipling, who was strongly influenced by Indian culture, had a swastika on the dust jackets of all his books until the rise of […]
An article in today’s Globe and Mail discusses how difficult it is becoming to make documentaries since every piece of footage or photograph needs to be cleared and paid for. As libraries of archival footage become consolidated, their owners are increasingly seeing them as sources of income. As noted in the article, this […]