Copyright Cowboy
If you have an interest in copyright law and have not already watched Rip!: A remix manifesto, you need to check it out. The director’s politics are a bit heavy handed but the point is eye opening: copyright law has not always been what copyright law is today. Using mash-up music artist Girl Talk as […]
Canada attempts new copyright law
The Canadian government is about to enter round three of amending its outdated copyright legislation after two prior attempts, Bill C-60 and Bill C-61, died on the parliamentary floor. [linebreak] It is difficult to wade through the jingo of the proposed on-line copyright changes, but in a nutshell the bill legalizes existing practices like personal […]
Copyright, Google and antiquity
A recent story in the European press has revealed that some of the oldest works in the human quiver of knowledge will be added to the e-shelf. Italy’s national library has slated up to one million titles for the scanner box, many of them the original works of philosophy and science pioneers. [linebreak] Standard copyright […]
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