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Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe
Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe
07/19/2004 04:43 AMWhile the US locks up copyrighted works for longer than could possibly
be reasonable thanks to our friends at the Walt Disney Company and the
Sonny Bono "Keep Mickey Locked Up" Act, over in Europe they have dared
to go with a horrifying 50 year copyright. Why is it horrifying?
Well, it appears that fifty years ago popular rock and roll began, and
that means
plenty of those songs are about to hit the
public domain. Of course, the music industry folks could never
let that happen, which is why they're lobbying hard for a Sonny Bono
copyright term extension act of their own, because the thought of
Elvis Presley's or the Beatles songs entering the public domain scares
the living daylights out of the industry. They've convinced Reuters
to write up a very one-sided piece that never talks to anyone who
might point out why there's a limit on the length of copyright, and
how stuff in the public domain is important to our culture. Is anyone
over in Europe complaining about how Shakespeare's works are in the
public domain? However, Reuters digs up some random musician to say:
"It's scary." It's scary? This is a musician who is on "a 37-date
sold-out tour." You're on a sold out tour, making plenty of money,
and you're complaining that you won't get your royalties from
something you did fifty years ago? In most lines of business, you get
paid for what you're doing today, not what you did fifty years ago.
"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us,"
"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us,"
12/06/2003 06:08 AMGood article
indyweek.com/durham/2003-12-03/cover.html
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Horror Stories from the PHP Community
Horror Stories from the PHP Community
12/27/2002 09:17 AMPHP (and Web) Horror Stories, Part 2
PHP (and Web) Horror Stories, Part 2
01/03/2003 08:54 AMISP Horror Stories from Hell
ISP Horror Stories from Hell
10/11/2002 07:55 AMISP Horror Stories from Hell
If you think that title is redundant then read Russell's Rant. Ouch.
In another post he states how he likes register.com as a Name
Registrar. I'd caution him against that. Register.com is hugely
expensive compared to competitors like 000Domains and if you need to
transfer a domain to another registrar? Good luck. I tried all
summer long without success (that's why I own fuzzygroup.net and
fuzzygroup.com). I'd strongly recommend 000Domains. They seem to be
rock solid and they just plain rock. Also like Register.com you don't
need a name server. That's pretty damn cool.
And to throw in a plug for the boys over at RackSpace, they aren't
perfect but they're damn good. I often get asked why I pay for a
premium priced server and now I'll just point them to Russell's rant.
It says it all. It really says it all. As a general comment, hosting
companies with options at the $10 per month or lower (even if they
have higher priced options) seem to always end up with problems
because the customers you attract drain the lifeblood from your
support techs. And then service suffers. And then you get Russell.
As this google search shows he's not the only one with problems with
CWI. The "Condompower" result near the end also shows why if you host
Adult sites you don't want to intermix them with your non-adult sites.
Searching for CWI juxtaposes the text interestingly. There are
apparently postive ways to use the word "sucks".
Holiday work horror stories
Holiday work horror stories
01/17/2003 03:26 AMCNET Jan 17 2003 2:23AM ET
Chronopath offers Restore, Domain
Tracker apps
Chronopath offers Restore, Domain
Tracker apps
11/10/2003 10:59 PMChronopath has announced the release of Restore 1.0, a new application
for archiving and restoring your documents, and Domain Tracker 1.0, a
new tool for managing domain names...
Forum Stories: SUS and no domain
Forum Stories: SUS and no domain
07/21/2004 05:59 PMLessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright
Stories
Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright
Stories
06/15/2004 07:55 PMDr. Design - Popups, Domain Names,
Copyright and More
Dr. Design - Popups, Domain Names,
Copyright and More
09/07/2002 01:44 AMWebmasterBase Sep 7 2002 0:41AM ET
the public domain
the public domain
06/21/2004 07:06 PMThe beautiful thing about Cory's speech being in the public domain
isn't merely that I could make an HTML version...
Public Domain Acquired
Public Domain Acquired
04/09/2004 03:54 PMBreaking news: "In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham,
North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last
evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . ." (
Full story)
When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?
When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?
10/23/2002 11:18 PMHow can I determine the copyright status of old documents?
public domain day -- in Canada
public domain day -- in Canada
01/07/2004 02:40 PMWallace McLean sent the following:
Today, January 1, 2004,
every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December
31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada.
As of today, millions of pages of archival heritage, in hundreds of
archival institutions, have become the common property of all
Canadians.
You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by
publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing,
or
treating the material in any other way. It's yours to enjoy and share
with
whomever, whenever, in whatever way you want.
Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to
die in
1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which
retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include
Polish
poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing, Dutch children's
author Hugo Pilon, Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin,
Soviet
dictator Joseph Stalin, metaphyisical author Baird Spalding, Norwegian
novelist and Nobel laureat Knut Hamsun, playwright and Nobel laureate
Eugene O'Neill (1953 was a bad year for Nobel laureates!), Irish poet
and
Yeats' one-time lover Maud Gonne, Welsh poet and playwright Dylan
Thomas
(bad year for poets!), country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams,
French author Hilaire Belloc, American historian J.G. Randall, Russian
composer Sergei Prokofiev (bad year for Russians!), founder of Saudi
Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Maria Montessori of school fame, and many
more.
Happy Public Domain Day!
Here in America, we'll celebrate our next public domain day in, um, 15
years.
Ingenious use of the public domain
Ingenious use of the public domain
01/07/2004 02:49 PMCustomized
Classics takes several classics of literature from the public
domain, and weaves names of your choosing directly into the story to
create custom one-off printings of your books. It's a clever (and
commercial) use of freely available works.
Public Domain Day in Canada
Public Domain Day in Canada
01/02/2004 07:12 AMYesterday marked the turning of the year, and as a consequence,
millions of works entered the public domain in Canada and other
countries with copyright terms more limited than those in the US.
Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had
died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into
the public domain in Canada...
Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to
die in
1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which
retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include
Polish
poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing, Dutch
children’s
author Hugo Pilon, Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin,
Soviet
dictator Joseph Stalin, metaphyisical author Baird Spalding, Norwegian
novelist and Nobel laureat Knut Hamsun, playwright and Nobel laureate
Eugene O’Neill (1953 was a bad year for Nobel laureates!), Irish
poet and
Yeats’ one-time lover Maud Gonne, Welsh poet and playwright Dylan
Thomas
(bad year for poets!), country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams,
French author Hilaire Belloc, American historian J.G. Randall, Russian
composer Sergei Prokofiev (bad year for Russians!), founder of Saudi
Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Maria Montessori of school fame, and many
more.
LinkPublic-Domain C Library
Public-Domain C Library
11/19/2003 02:44 AMFirst checkins, project statement
Union for the Public Domain website
Union for the Public Domain website
06/09/2004 08:29 PMUPD
public-domain.org
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Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain
Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain
02/05/2005 09:31 PM
Last night Francesca and I
went to see the artist Barbara Kruger
speak at the San Francisco
Art Institute. Kruger is known for, among other things, stark
photo-and-text collages that appropriate the language of consumer
culture to comment on it.
After the talk, Francesca (our resident art expert) gave Kruger a
Creative Commons t-shirt and explained what it is we do.
"Oh, sounds like Lawrence Lessig," Kruger said.
"He's our chairman," Francesca and I said in unison.
"Wow, if you have to have a hero, he's as good as anyone I can
think of," she said. "Please tell him that I use his book to teach my
grad school courses."
Having endured and prevailed in a copyright
litigation (over the image above), Kruger can appreciate the
benefits of free culture.
My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain
My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain
02/12/2004 06:13 PMI have just given a talk at the
O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Confernece called
Eb
ooks: Neither E, Nor Books, which is something of an anomaly for
me in three ways:
- I wrote out this talk, word for word, in advance of the
presentation
- I am releasing that written text as a free, public domain file,
right now, moments before I get off the stage
So here's the text of that talk, dedicated to the Public Domain, for
you to do with what you will.
This isn't to say that copyright is bad, but that there's such a thing
as good copyright and bad copyright, and that sometimes, too much good
copyright is a bad thing. It's like chilis in soup: a little goes a
long way, and too much spoils the broth.
From the Luther Bible to the first phonorecords, from radio to the
pulps, from cable to MP3, the world has shown that its first
preference for new media is its "democratic-ness" -- the ease with
which it can reproduced.
(And please, before we get any farther, forget all that business about
how the Internet's copying model is more disruptive than the
technologies that proceeded it. For Christ's sake, the Vaudeville
performers who sued Marconi for inventing the radio had to go from a
regime where they had *one hundred percent* control over who could get
into the theater and hear them perform to a regime where they had
*zero* percent control over who could build or acquire a radio and
tune into a recording of them performing. For that matter, look at the
difference between a monkish Bible and a Luther Bible -- next to that
phase-change, Napster is peanuts)
LinkPointers to Public Domain sites
Pointers to Public Domain sites
04/09/2004 03:54 PM
This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a
wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]
Public Enemy's history of copyright in
hip hop
Public Enemy's history of copyright in
hip hop
06/07/2004 04:17 AM"How Copyright Changed Hip Hop" is an interview with Public Enemy's
Chuck D and Hank Shocklee on the punishing battles Public Enemy fought
over their use of samples in their early work.
Stay Free!: With its hundreds of samples, is it possible to make a
record like It Takes a Nation of Millions today? Would it be possible
to clear every sample?
Shocklee: It wouldn't be impossible. It would just be very, very
costly. The first thing that was starting to happen by the late 1980s
was that the people were doing buyouts. You could have a
buyout--meaning you could purchase the rights to sample a sound--for
around $1,500. Then it started creeping up to $3,000, $3,500, $5,000,
$7,500. Then they threw in this thing called rollover rates. If your
rollover rate is every 100,000 units, then for every 100,000 units you
sell, you have to pay an additional $7,500. A record that sells two
million copies would kick that cost up twenty times. Now you're
looking at one song costing you more than half of what you would make
on your album.
Chuck D: Corporations found that hip-hop music was viable. It sold
albums, which was the bread and butter of corporations. Since the
corporations owned all the sounds, their lawyers began to search out
people who illegally infringed upon their records. All the rap artists
were on the big six record companies, so you might have some lawyers
from Sony looking at some lawyers from BMG and some lawyers from BMG
saying, "Your artist is doing this," so it was a tit for tat that
usually made money for the lawyers, garnering money for the company.
Very little went to the original artist or the publishing company.
L
ink
(
via Waxy)
Public domain art contest from Duke
University
Public domain art contest from Duke
University
08/20/2004 12:34 PMXeni Jardin: Duke University Law School's Center for
the Study of Public Domain is running a video contest with some cool
prizes, and a nod to Creative Commons. The contest invites artists "to
create a 2-minute moving image that explains to the public some of the
tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the
intellectual property issues artists face, focusing particularly on
either music or documentary film." Entry deadline is November 1, and
some tasty, gadgety prizes are offered.
Link (
Thanks, Yo Vinny)
Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??
Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??
01/16/2004 11:28 AMIn response to yester
day's criticism of Illinois Governor Blagojevich's plan to spend money
on 12 books per child per year rather than on libraries, Ernest
Miller comes up with a most interesting proposal.
Book Publishing in Every School and Library
"Why not split the difference?
What if Illinois spent at least part of the $26 million for the
book give away program to install book publishing equipment in every
library in Illinois? Then, just like the Internet
Bookmobile, children would be able to walk into a library and walk
out with a book they could keep. Frankly, I think every school and
library should have book publishing equipment. Given enough scale it
is probably cheaper to print out most public domain books and give
them away then deal with the costs of checking them out and
restocking. Heck, you could have an option: check the book out and be
subject to possible late fees, or pay $1 or so and keep the book.
Might work out pretty well."
Now there's a vision! I'm smelling a grant on the horizon
(because I don't see the Governor compromising). Any SLS library want to be my guinea
pig?! :-)
How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!
How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!
04/12/2005 04:23 PMIt appears that, once again, the entertainment industry's efforts to
educa
te everyone on their distorted view of intellectual property law
is causing some problems. According to
Copyfight, a radio host was recently
fired for airing materials he had recorded off C-SPAN. C-SPAN,
of course, makes no claim to the copyright on the audio they broadcast
from Congress as it is, in fact, in the public domain. However, the
radio station didn't seem to care, and assumed that it was a misuse of
the material and promptly fired the radio host. And some wonder why
there are people afraid of the ever-disappearing public domain.
'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain
'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain
07/18/2004 05:19 AMBriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain
BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain
11/13/2003 07:40 AMBriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the Public Domainhttp://fusion.sims.b
erkeley.edu/briefbank/BriefBank is a free,
community-supported resource that collects and redistributes briefs in
the area of law, technology, and public policy. Briefs are generously
donated by legal scholars and partner organizations. BriefBank is
housed at the
School of
Information Managment and Systems and is administered by the
Samuelson Law, Technology, and
Public Policy Clinic at
Boalt Hall School of Law,
UC Berkeley.
Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year
Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year
07/18/2004 12:21 PMOn January 1, 2005, Elvis Presley's "That's All Right" -- a
50-year-old tune currently enjoying the #3 chart spot in Great Britain
-- will enter the public domain.
Anyone will be able to release it without paying royalties to the
owners of the master or the performer's heirs. BMG will start losing a
significant piece of its catalog income in Europe. As "That's All
Right" is being hailed by some as the beginning of rock 'n' roll, the
implications are that every year after 2005, more recordings that
defined the genre will fall into public domain.
Link
(
Thanks, electrincinca)
Copyright and the death of Public
Enemy's sound
Copyright and the death of Public
Enemy's sound
06/06/2004 12:45 PM
Stay Free Magazine has a
great interview with Chuck D and Hank Shocklee from Public Enemy.
In it, they discuss how lax copyright laws of the late 1980s allowed
them to produce thickly sampled songs for their first two major label
releases. "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and "Fear of
a Black Planet" were revolutionary albums that changed the landscape
of hip-hop, but due to groups sampling larger portions of songs,
record companies came back against their own rap artists, demanding
higher and higher license fees for each and every sample.
As Chuck D and Hank Shocklee attest, this change in licensing and law
changed the sound of Public Enemy forever as license fees for samples
became prohibitively high. They describe their more recent releases as
sounding "soft" because they've resorted to recreating samples in the
studio using live instruments, to get around master sampling license
fees.
Keep the public involved in Canadian
copyright legislation!
Keep the public involved in Canadian
copyright legislation!
08/06/2004 07:52 AMWith the Canadian Supreme Court okaying file-sharing and the Canadian
Parliament vowing to "fix" this, it's time to take action. If you're a
Canadian resident, there's a petition to Parliament you can sign to
encourage lawmakers to do the right thing.
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to ensure generally
that users are recognised as interested parties and are meaningfully
consulted about proposed changes to the Copyright Act and to ensure in
particular that any changes at least preserve all existing users'
rights, including the right to use copyrighted materials under Fair
Dealing and the right to make private copies of audio recordings. We
further call upon Parliament not to extend the term of copyright; and
to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own
communication devices.
Link
(
Thanks, Chris!)
"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts."
"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts."
07/04/2004 03:35 PMIn Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain
In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain
08/02/2004 10:12 PMI.B.M. plans to announce that it is contributing more than half a
million lines of its software code, valued at $85 million, to an open
source software group.
President Bush public domain audio
project
President Bush public domain audio
project
06/18/2004 10:21 PM
Though the graphics on this project probably reveal the author's
personal positions on the President, it is pretty cool that someone
went to the trouble of creating an audio archive
of every speech President George W Bush has made publicly. They're
available for download as mp3, or you can get all 10 Gb of audio on
three DVDs from the site.
It'd be cool if the Library of Congress
site had this level of detail on all presidents, but this will do
for now. They're even throwing a little music
remix contest based on the speeches.
Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain
Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain
01/22/2004 02:11 AMMarket failures create the need for organizations like the Salvation
Army. Joan Kroc used her family fortune in powerful ways that
recognized these failures.
"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada"
"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada"
01/04/2004 03:27 PMMacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain
MacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain
03/13/2003 10:16 AM The MacArthur
Foundation issued two large grants for
scholarly research into current intellectual property (IP) issues
.
One, for $600,000, is to the American Association for the Advancement
of Science ( AAAS ), in support of
research into "examining intellectual property policies and their
potential impact on scientific research and innovation".
"We have been looking for an appropriate balance between the interests
of the public and its need for access to information, and the
interests of those who produce and publish that scientific
information... These grants will allow us to expand our approach so
that we can address the impacts of both copyright and patenting on
access to and use of scientific information."
A second grant, for $250,000, goes to the
National Research Council , at the
science-focused National Academies (
NAS ), to support "its efforts to promote open access to and the
preservation of a public domain in scientific and technical data
internationally." (The NAS has published a recent
report on
technology and education.)
The MacArthur Foundation has a history of, and
program for supporting IP research. In July of 2002 it released
four grants totalling $2.5 million, for research on the
internet and intellectual property . In September of this year,
the Foundation awarded one of its Fellows
Grants , or "genius grants" to
Cornell 's Paul Ginsparg, for his work on arXiv , an open-source scholarly archive for scientific research .
The Rockefeller Foundation
launched a related initiative in November, aimed at developing
new fair use policies to mitigate the digital
divide .
(via
BoingBoing and Philanthropy
News Digest )
Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online
Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online
02/10/2004 02:41 AMGovernment documents supplied by Former Treasury Secretary Paul
O'Neill to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind
for his book, The
Price of Loyalty, are now available online. The site makes use of the Creative Commons public domain mark.
These documents, drawn from a collection of 19,000 files, are called
"The Bush Files" and Suskind is encouraging other administration
officials to contribute to the database, "to encourage more
productive, fact-based public dialogues," as stated on the website.
Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain
Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain
07/20/2004 11:30 AMBelga Direct Press Releases Jul 20 2004 3:04PM GMT
Telegraph | News | Charities 'spread
scare stories on climate change to boost
public donations'
Telegraph | News | Charities 'spread
scare stories on climate change to boost
public donations'
05/03/2004 07:25 PM"There is no way you can cover all the science. Fundraising
appeals are very emotional." .. anyone be surprised by this .. It
seems
so
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&sSheet=/news/2004/05/02/ixhome.html
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