Tag Archives: copyright

Creative Commons Plus

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Creative Commons has announced CCPlus.  +  This is not a new license, but a method of facilitation to acquire more use of a non-commercially licensed CC protected work.  In theory, the gold link would take a potential user of the … Continue reading →

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Copyright doesn’t protect your feelings

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

TechCrunch has a story where copyright law has gotten out of hand.  A guy does a parody video using a Billy Joel tune.  When I first saw the headline I thought the musician has ordered the take down because the … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain on Copyright Pirates

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

One hundred years later, and pirates are still a problem.  I found this article pointing to a New York Times document written by Mark Twain in 1906.  At the time, copyright protection lasted 42 years.  Twain knew his works would … Continue reading →

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Legislating Napster

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here is a bill that I hope dies before becoming law.  The U.S. House of Representatives bill (PDF), which was introduced late Friday by top Democratic politicians, could give the movie and music industries a new revenue stream by pressuring … Continue reading →

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Lessig at TED

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/187 Here is my favorite copyright reform advocate. Lawrence Lessig is a law professor at Stanford. He is also the founder of Creative Commons and a board member of the EFF.

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