- The Patry Copyright Blog: The Establishment Press Takes on the RIAA - Still seems to be a bit of a "pre-crime" angle here but a good examination of issues that have been generally missed.
- Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes - Good discussion about differing group sizes.
- Rob Galbraith DPI: Revised Lithium battery transport regulations for passenger aircraft now in effect - There has been an incredible amount of misreporting and commenting on tis story.
- ongoing · 2008 Prediction I: RIA vs. AJAX - This also plays into the whole stateless vs. stateful tug-of-war.
- Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: Public and private spaces, and why YouTube comments are so awful - I think the Dunbar Number concept is interesting.
- Five Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again - ReadWriteWeb - I've been meaning to write about this topic. It's certainly one area of Web 2.0 that hasn't gone much of anywhere.
- Timothy Armes Photography - Output tool for Adobe Lightroom. Haven't tried it yet but looks interesting.
- Law & Life: Silicon Valley: 2007 Top Ten Free and Open Source Legal Issues - A good precis.
- The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality - New York Times - Demonstrations like this tend to belie some of the "If it weren't DRMed and it were priced right I would buy it" rhetoric--at least among certain demographics.
- Safe Travel - Batteries - No loose lithium batteries in checked luggage any longer. Note that the :max of 2" batteries in carry-on only applies to fairly big (larger than average laptop battery) size.
- paidContent.org - The Economics of Content - Wal-Mart Cancels Video Download Service; HP Says Wasn’t Worth Powering - The HP angle here is interesting. Yet another new-style business that HP apparently failed to plug itself into.
- Burningbird » Den of Thieves - Some further thoughts on copyright etc.
- David Galbraith - This post actually treads some new ground on the Lane Hartwell/Richter Scales mess.
- Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem - I don't especially agree with TechCrunch on a number of things here but this comment is spot on: "In the old days, someone might have clipped Hartwell’s image from a magazine and put it into a collage, or filmed it and put it into a private video. Nobod
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I can't agree about the Lane Hartwell thing. What good does it do to have a link to Lane's website, if all it does is get others to use her photographs for free by putting links at the end of their own works? As far as Flickr goes, perhaps they need to be more explicit about the licenses on the site. Certainly there have been complaints from artists about the reverse problem, namely putting a photo under a CC license and then finding out that they won't get paid.
Sure, if the use was really fair use, then there is no problem. The answer if not doing away with copyright, the answer is in creating technologies that allow for clearing the rights in a scalable manner.
As I've written over on my CNET Blog Network blog, I'm somewhat conflicted about this particular case. I certainly don't buy the whole "eh, it's only a photo" argument. OTOH, this didn't seem like the ideal case to pull out the big guns--although I don't think it was fair use. On still the other tentacle, attribution is just good practice even if it has no *legal* significance.
As for flickr... I suppose they could always have more detailed explanations but seems pretty clear to me: http://flickr.com/creativecommons/. The biggest Creative Commons problem I see is that the whole commercial/noncommercial distinction is vague and essentially broken.
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