Posts Tagged ‘Copyright’

Flick” This Controversy

It’s cer­tainly been a cou­ple of bad days for Flickr and Yahoo!. First on 30 Jan­u­ary 2007, Flickr made a cou­ple of very unpop­u­lar announce­ments. Here’s the full-text of those announce­ments. 30th Jan­u­ary, 2007 A pair of items for your atten­tion: 1. In our ongo­ing efforts to Make Flickr Bet­ter®, we’re intro­duc­ing two addi­tional lim­its: the […]

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Creative Commons Works!

Boing Boing recently pointed out a music video cre­ated by Jonathan Coul­ton. Mr. Coul­ton went to Flickr and found a bunch of images with Cre­ative Com­mon licenses. He then cre­ated a touch­ing music video based on those images. This is the sort of thing that could not have been done with­out Cre­ative Com­mons as Mr. […]

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Dvorak vs. Creative Commons

In a recent opin­ion piece on PCMag.com, Mr. Dvo­rak shows off his stun­ning lack of com­pre­hen­sion of the ben­e­fits to Cre­ative Com­mons Licens­ing. Will some­one explain to me the ben­e­fits of a trendy sys­tem devel­oped by Pro­fes­sor Lawrence Lessig of Stan­ford? CCL is a sim­ple way for con­tent cre­ators to let every­body know what they’ll […]

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