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10:40:24 PM    

Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School) posts on digital rights and on public domain

Digital rights expression (DRE) vs. Digital rights management (DRM) [Lawrence Lessig]

Weblogs and the public domain [Lawrence Lessig]

The Creative Commons License ("expressing freedom beyond fair use") [Lawrence Lessig]

"What politicians need to remember is that Congress has always adjusted the rules by which creators get paid as a response to new technology. That’s just what they should be doing today. Never before has the law been used to force new technology into old way of doing business. Every time before this, it was the law that adjusted to assure artists got paid given the new technology." [Lawrence Lessig]

9:50:45 PM    

Creative Commons, RSS, and Manila

Further to earlier posts today about open source and Doc Searls.

"This document shows you how to use a Creative Commons license in the RSS feed generated from a Manila weblog.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization run by several universities that makes it easy for creative people and organizations to share their work with more options than are provided by copyright.

Aggregators and feed readers should consider the presence of the element, but it should also be understood that, at this writing, this is a new feature in the RSS world. We must allow software designers time to think and discuss to see how the presence of a CC license will be utilized by their software.

We will of course also do an equivalent feature for Radio UserLand. According to Larry Lessig, Moveable Type already supports Creative Commons in RSS. " [Manila]

This, in my opinion, is a good (no, great) example fo figuring out a fair balance between technology and intellectual property rights, and thereby avoiding endless litigation, cease-and-desist orders, etc.

1:21:48 PM    

What is "trackback" about?

Trackback has been mentioned a lot lately in blogs, and I didn't know what it was. Here is the explanation.

12:55:29 PM    

The Whatever License

Good thoughts from Doc Searls.

11:01:41 AM    

More issues on DMCA and access [Blogs and Education]

This one bears some thinking about. On the one hand, there is no doubt that there are conflicts between intellectual property rights and the ability of people to communicate via technology on the Web and internet. On the other hand, there is also no doubt that a lot of "hiss-"trionics and polemics are being launched by both sides instead of trying to figure out the answer.

The fight seems to get nastiest when it involves companies in a fight for market share with only one or two major competitors, and academics who seem to feel there is no justification for private ownership of intellectual property, period. (My opinion, ok?)

I like open source more all the time.

10:55:09 AM