I’ve created a student licensing guide for using content in mixed media production and licensing your own production when you’re done.
The final guide is available
Here. (.doc) file
Text version.
A longer winded version of the same information contained in the Guide (with historical references)
is available here:
Word File
Text version.
My pros and cons table comparing Creative Commons 6 main licenses (and the Public Domain) is here:
Pros and Cons of Creative Commons Licenses
(As an idealist and a skeptic.)
Category Archives: Copyright History
It’s Over. We Lose.
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We lost Eldred. We being “the people.”
So the Public loses again. Par for the course these days.
This blog will wear black today in mourning of this decision.
Official Eldred Opinion Up
Supreme Court Rules in Eldred v. Ashcroft, Upholding Copyright Term Extension (http://www.copyright.gov/pr/eldred.html)
I will, of course, have web-friendly formats of the PDF files up later today.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION
The Supreme Court ruled today in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a
constitutional challenge to the 20-year extension of copyright
term in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. In an
opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court concluded that
Congress’s extension of the terms of existing copyrights did not
exceed Congress’s power under the Copyright Clause and did not
violate the First Amendment. Justices Stevens and Breyer
dissented.
Control vs. Freedom
Jonathan Rowe has written a great commentary for the Christian Science Monitor:
Tollbooths of the mind.
Share money and you have less; share an idea and you still have it, and more.
Jefferson practiced what he preached, in this respect at least. As the
nation’s first commissioner of patents, Jefferson did not grant these
monopolies easily or eagerly. He accepted the need for copyrights and
patents, but strictly limited in extent and time.The aim always was to enrich the public domain
Here’s a great article by
Here’s a great article by Seth Shulman for MIT’s Technology Review about protecting our intellectual future:
Intellectual-Property Ecology: Owning the Future.
Let