Tonight I attended a Creative Commons forum featuring Larry Lessig, founder; Joi Ito, CEO; Jamie Boyle, Board Chair; and Molly S. Van Houweling, Board Member and former Exec. Director. I was fortunate enough to hear the story of CC’s start – how it went from counter-copyright to copyright commons to creative commons, how the different […]
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Enough is Enough
I don’t make a habit of defending crimes of either child pornography or copyright infringement, but in this particular instance, I’m speaking up… An Australian man has been convicted of possessing child pornography and of accessing child pornography on his computer and fined AUS$3,000. “Why the small penalty?”, you might be asking. “Why is this […]
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To buy or not to buy (mp3s)…
Okay, I admit it. I pay for my music. And for a variety of reasons: I work at a university, and so if I want to download during work hours, I wouldn’t want to do so illegally (you must know that in the US, universities are targeted heavily by the RIAA!); I like having the […]