Tag / law
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Warner’s got a brilliant idea – sending a DMCA takedown notice to Larry Lessig
I guess I won’t have to comment much on this one. Just imagine this scenario: Warner Music on YouTube finds a presentation Lawrence Lessig did. Warner Music demands Lawrence Lessig to take down the video of his own presentation. No April fool’s joke, no misinformation, no fiction. They have done so. And of course, Lessig stands up against.
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Lawrence Lessig: An Endangered Species Called Culture
After publishing the most recent article on Dubber’s pitch for Popkomm, I once more browsed Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 1.0 Generic License). Actually, I happened to find a metaphor he used that perfectly fits my comment on ContentSphere which I’d like you to think about.
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Popkomm’s arising: Dubber – Music, Culture, and an Industry Stifling Its Future
Andrew Dubber just recently pitched a topic to Popkomm – “Music As Culture”. If you read the outline of this hopefully upcoming speech at New Music Strategies, you might recognise a bit of Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture”. We’ve seen the USA extending copyright terms, and European countries suggesting to do so. Just yesterday, the European parliament voted in favour of a prolongation.
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GEMA vs. Jamendo et al. – Get Money for Nothing
You will remember my article on music distribution platform Jamendo going with Creative Commons. Today, I just read news from a week ago that they are about to integrate a new search tool. It supports promoters, agencies, movie makers and game manufacturers by providing search categories like mood, occasion, genre and language. Business customers of Jamendo who would like to make commercial use of tracks offered can purchase licenses within Jamendo PRO.
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Keep Culture Safe – Don’t You Dare to Touch It!
Michael Masnick had me checking out Richard Smith’s article on the issue of extending copyright. Richard Smith from London’s Guardian features the book “Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind” (free download under CreativeCommons license) by James Boyle, professor of law at Duke Law School, North Carolina. The books’ core statement is that “the world has made a colossal cultural mistake that shames our generation”.
