Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'future of media'
Scattering thought across the Web
It's funny how things connect up. Since I returned home from the CIP annual Symposium on UMUC's campus, I've been reading the copyright news with little enthusiasm. I see important things going on (like the brewing ACTA storm), but I...
Semantic web and copyright
Yahoo! announced today that it will be supporting Semantic Web and microformats to improve search results for structured data (as reported in ReadWrite Web: And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support - ReadWriteWeb). The Semantic Web has...
Intermediate fair use and the creative process
Bill Patry, in reporting on a case involving the issue of which version of a screenplay to compare to another work to establish the similarity of an infringing work to the work it supposedly infringed, The Patry Copyright Blog: And...
Music desperately pointing the way for publishing... anybody listening?
A couple of months ago, I noticed a tie-in between the publishing industry's future and the introduction of the iPhone reported at Print is Dead, and posted an entry here on the subject (What publishing can learn from the iPhone)....
Mark Cooper's short research note about the revolution in the music industry, 7 years into the decade
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....
More on CCIA's FTC complaint
To follow up on Georgia's post yesterday about the Computer & Communication Industry Association's FTC complaint re "fair use," the CCIA has posted a copy of the full complaint. It is worth a look I believe, at least to see...
Fair use proponents get a little help pushing the envelope
The Wall Street Journal is running an article today, "Google, Others Contest Copyright Warnings - WSJ.com," that describes efforts to reign in the absolute statements and warnings we often see content owners use to describe their rights. From the ubiquitous...
Moving Images: Digitization for Access
Peter Brantley, director of the Digital Library Federation, posts at his personal blog, shimenawa, but recently has begun posting at O'Reilly Radar. Today he posted, "Moving Images: Digitization for Access," which I found quite interesting. The group he describes, Lot...
Losing sleep over copyright
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
It's the business models, not copyright
I have believed for quite some time now that the problem with copyright and creative culture wasn't really a legal problem, but rather a business model problem, and this continues to be a year where the business solutions are finally...
Speaking of YouTube and Copyright ...
I am in France at the moment; typing in ... the municipal library in Lyon. The keyboard is way different! Hunt and peck or redo every 5th letter... Anyway, even here with little access to the Internet (the friend I...
Copyright and the Long Tail
If you are unfamiliar with the idea of the Long Tail, I urge you to visit the Website where this story is posted for more information generally, and of course to read this little note about lost opportunities, lost expression,...
Tangled Up In Seuss, at Salon
Just read a very interesting article at Salon, Tangled up in Seuss | Salon News, in which author Dan Brekke tells the story of a mashup of Dr. Seuss lyrics sung in the 60's style of Bob Dylan. On another...
The Year the Business Models Change?
As we've noticed this year, there have been numerous indications that things may be shifting a bit in a positive way with respect to the business models of the media companies that have most resisted such change. We have discussed...
Looks Like Google and the L'Agence France-Presse Have Settled
In a story in Paris' Le Monde, Le Monde.fr : Accord de partenariat entre l'AFP et Google, the French daily reports that Google and the French news agency that sued Google in March 2005 for copyright infringement have settled their...
Digital Video, and a Post-Copyright Era?
Judith Thomas does a masterful job of explaining best practices and challenges in creating a digital motion media collection in this article, Digital Video, the Final Frontier - 1/15/2004 - netConnect. I'm studying digitizing video right now at the iSchool,...
More Reason for Optimism
I once read that the year before the transistor *completely* replaced the vacuum tube, more vacuum tubes were sold than in any other year of their existence. I'm awful with details, so I'll accept that I may not have this...
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