Friday, July 25, 2003

Old Photos...... Shooting the Snakecharmer video in 1993. 10:02:48 PM    comment []; Corporate Fallout Detector Another ingenious gadget from MIT's Media Lab, this one a "corporate fallout detector" that's meant to help consumers quickly gauge the social and environmental records of the companies behind the products they're considering buying. It functions sort of like a geiger counter, using a barcode scanner and information culled from databases about pollution and corporate corruption to determine how evil or benign a particular company is. Just try carrying one of these around with you on your next visit to Wal-Mart and see how long it takes to get kicked out. [Via Gothamist]... [Gizmodo] Let's build bar-code scanning into mobile phones!! 9:20:06 PM    comment []; Free Wi-Fi in St.Louis St. Louis is gaining a free 42-square block WiFi hot spot this month. [The Connected PDA] 9:16:39 PM    comment []; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Attribution. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit. Noncommercial. The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees may not use the work for commercial purposes -- unless they get the licensor's permission. Share Alike. The licensor permits others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the one that governs the licensor's work. This seems like a good choice for music. 1. It seems only fair that the author should receive credit. 2. This allows people to make copies and even to give away copies of the work, but does NOT allow copying for profit or any commercial uses - like using your composition in a movie or for a TV commercial for example... 3. I understand this to mean that someone may create new works derived from your composition, but they can't copyright them and have to use the same Creative Commons license. This is where it gets fuzzy for me. Would this #3, for example, allow somebody to use a sample of your melody in their pop song as long as they use the same license...or would using that sample fall under clause #2 - no commercial use? Any thoughts? I mean I would definitely not want people to be able to use a sample of one of my melodies as a hook for their song for free or discover my melody on a million silly Disney toys! 9:15:15 PM    comment []; More stuff on CC..... Creative Commons explained..... 9:14:17 PM    comment []; Opsound.... This is a cool record label using a Creative Commons license. You can copy the work, you can add to the work, you can even sell your new work that incorporates their sounds/music -as long as you let people share in the same way.. The Attribution-ShareAlike license requires only that you attribute the works to their original authors/musicians (attribution), and that any derivative works (anything you make using the sound files) be licensed under the same license (share alike). 9:14:01 PM    comment []; Founders Copyright The Framers of the U.S. Constitution understood that copyright was about balance — a trade-off between public and private gain, society-wide innovation and creative reward. In 1790, the U.S.'s first copyright law granted authors a monopoly right over their creations for 14 years, with the option of renewing that monopoly for another 14. We want to help restore that sense of balance — not through any change to the current laws — but by helping copyright holders who recognize a long copyright term's limited benefit to voluntarily release that right after a shorter period. I am considering this for my next album. It would give my new works a copyright of 14 + 14 years, which is what the founding fathers intended. I keep thinking that all of this starts with us, and if we/I don't do this, who will, if we don't do this now, when will we start. We are in a terrible self-centered period and this might the right thing to do....The other option I am looking at is a Creative Commons license.....see next entry..... 9:13:46 PM    comment []; Australian government to ban spam Australia's government will introduce legislation to ban electronic junk mail (spam). It will ban the sending of commercial electronic messaging without the prior consent of end-users unless there is an existing customer-business relationship. The ban will then be enforced through the Australian Communications Authority. [MacCentral] Let's please do that also! At least make the Spamers give me a real return address so I can spam 'em back! 9:13:19 PM    comment [];

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