The Center for Social Media at American University recently launched yet another in its amazing line of best practices guides, The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. I have received notes from so many people...
I looked around this morning for discussion of one of the points about the Google Book Search settlement that I consider among the most important, but I just didn't turn up anything. Granted, I only did a Google search and...
In Google Book Settlement, Business Trumps Ideals, reports Juan Perez in this insightful business article in PC World. Here's the quote that sums up the deal's novel approach to orphan works: Of the 7 million books Google has scanned, 1...
So, at last, the cards are laid on the table and we see what everyone's holding. And guess who's got the winning hand! No surprise there. Google, by a landslide. (Whoops, my subconscious hopes for election day slipping in there...)...
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
No need to comment really: Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM. DRM is history in the music biz. Now for books and movies....
... Abandoning DRM anyway. Warner's Entire Digital Music Catalog For Sale on Amazon as MP3s | Listening Post from Wired.com. With this announcement on Wired news, we learn that 3 of the 4 majors have now concluded that sales...
After 6 weeks of drafting, posting, tracking blog statistics, and weekly writing in a journal about the experience, I have just completed my blogging experiment at Mass digitization ~ Changing copyright law and policy, by posting the Conclusion today. Here's...
The story about the NY Times closing down shop on its 2 year experiment in selling access to content has been reported all over the blogosphere, from many different angles. It is a rich story, really, and does in fact...
Mark Cooper has posted a short research note, Music Downloads - A Victory for Consumers and Artists at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. It refers to music industry data to make the case for the victory it describes....
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