Submitted by elliott on Sat, 2006-04-01 13:09.
last night cory doctorow, of boingboing and electronic frontier foundation fame, gave a public lecture right here in brisbane as part of the ideas festival. naturally he was going to talk about something tech/internet related. but despite the predictablity of topics, it was a very good lecture.
he gave a fantastic overview of drm and the horrific potential future should the large ip holders – companies, collecting societies and the likes – get their way.
he talked about the lastest swag of measures being pushed by major ip owners in the drm war: broadcast flags. this marks the broadening of the drm concept beyound the internet and into any form of digital content (ever wondered why the DTV push is on?). built-in restrictions that tell your digital technology what it will allow you to do. for example, some programs on DTV won’t be able to be stored on a hard disk, or will automatically delete after expiration of a defined period. doctorow even when to far as to say that some digital technology will shut itself off to ensure contravention does not occur. he cites a child’s first steps as an example, saying imagine your child is taking thier first steps across the lounge room. you’re recording with your digital camera and as you pan past the television the camera recognises a broadcast flag which restricts copying the images on screen, and the camera shuts itself off.”
so how much freedom will new technology really give us?
Submitted by elliott on Thu, 2006-03-09 12:00.
Creative Commons, Warner Bros. Records, and Machine Shop Recordings, are proud to present the Fort Minor Remix Contest, starting today at ccMixter. Fort Minor – the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda – is offering the separated audio elements of its hit single “Remember the Name” online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that people all over the world can easily and legally create remixes of the song.
The producer of the winning remix (as chosen by Mike Shinoda) will be awarded a new Technics SL-1200MK5 turntable, courtesy of Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings.
Visit ccMixter for more details about the contest.
Submitted by elliott on Mon, 2006-02-06 14:06.
The third version of the General Public Licence, launched on 24 January by the Free Software Foundation, is open for comment. This project will bring together organizations, software developers, and software users from around the globe during 2006, in an effort to update the world’s most popular free software license.
for more information see the GPLv3 site.
Submitted by elliott on Mon, 2006-02-06 13:51.
The Adelphi Charter, which promotes open access by setting out new principles for copyright and patents, was launched recently in London.
To launch the Charter in Australia, AESharenet will be hosting Making the Most of Creativity: In the Public Interest.
The seminar, set up to explore the Adelphi Charter, will be chaired by stimulating IP commentators including Chaterine Lumby and Graham Greenleaf.
The Adelphi Charter is supported by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.
see the AESharenet website for registration details
for more information on the Adelphi Charter, see the Adelphi site
Submitted by elliott on Mon, 2006-02-06 13:44.
Creative Commons Australia team member Elliott Bledsoe recently guest edited a Creative Commons focused issue of Filter Magazine (issue 61, Nov 05 – Jan 06), published by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, Australia’s peak network and advocacy body for media artists working in screen, sound, installation, performance, literary and networked arenas.
He commissioned articles that provided both the philosophical underpinnings as well as practical applications of Creative Commons licences as it applies to media arts practice. The articles were:
The articles were accompanied by his editorial, Arhh Me Hearties – Pirates on the Digital High Seas
The issue is available in hard copy or online on the ANAT site
Submitted by elliott on Tue, 2005-11-22 09:01.
you can now get badges from the (in)famous creative commons australia animation film featuring the crazy duo mayer and bettle.
get yours here
Submitted by elliott on Sun, 2005-11-06 12:22.
Google now enables CC-customized searching so you can search for Creative Commons-licensed content on either Google or Yahoo!’s Advanced Search page. Creative Commons’ own “Find” page now gives you to option to use either Google or Yahoo! for your searching. With two major search engines now enabling the dissemination of CC-licensed works, this enables greater dissemination of CC-licensed works and establishes CC’s licensing infrastructure as an important component of the Internet.
x-posted from cc.org blog
Submitted by elliott on Fri, 2005-10-28 09:31.
creative commons australia team member elliott bledsoe has published a three page feature in desktop magazine called “Creative Commons: copyright for the digital age.”
the feature includes an analysis of the online regulatory environment and creative commons as an alternative to that. it offers information about what creative commons offers and how to use it. it discusses the practical uses of the sampling licences (yet to be launched in australia) and offers places to find cc licenced content.
it also includes three case studies around design organisation Black brow (who produced the cc-au animation), online music distributors MoSound and online journal On Line Opinion.
“Creative Commons: copyright for the digital age” in desktop magazine, #211, november 2005, pp58-60
Submitted by elliott on Fri, 2005-10-07 06:33.
the first annual Creative Commons fundraising drive has started and CC needs your support. since inception the organisation has offered authors and creators simple tools to mark their content with the freedom they believe it should carry. these tools have helped build a movement. there are now over fifty-million objects on the web that link back to our licenses. there are hundreds of volunteers working to spread our free licenses across the globe (like us here in the cc-au office).
funding had traditionally come from the substantial support of major foundations. but now we need to show the world that our support reaches beyond foundation boardrooms.
we want to sustain our growth by building a core membership in CC. we need these members to help us to continue to offer free tools to enable a flexible range of protections and freedoms for artists, educators, scientists and writers. your contribution will make an important difference now (More about donations and deductions).
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