Posted in Copyright, Digital rights, Future on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A TED video of Lessig’s speech (ca. 20 min) found via the Information Research blog. As the TED site puts it,
The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Images, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The Wikimedia Commons site offers loads and loads of pictures, for free. Or, as they put it, it “provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts” (quote from the Welcome page). What an exciting resource for educators! Be sure to check the usage [...]
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Libraries, Solutions, Tech, Word soup on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
“eMusic has started offering over a thousand downloadable audio books without digital rights management. Available in plain MP3 format, you don’t have to deal with any specific software, or digital rights management restrictions. (… 
Hint to Library-world downloadable media vendors: Follow my logic here. We and our users have problems with [...]
Posted in Digital rights, Tech, Usability on Monday, July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Via lo-fi librarian:
The CC PDF Converter (a creative commons licensed pdf converter) claims to make pdf documents from “almost any application”. The demo posted on the web site would benefit from a more detailed description, but the conversion itself seems pretty straightforward.
Posted in Digital rights on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Eric Whitfield, a visiting blogger at Tame the Web, wrote an excellent piece on the possible demise of Digital Rights Management. I encourage you to read the comments as well.
I haven’t gotten much into mp3 music, let alone iPods, mainly because proprietary software and/or media formats bug me. It’s annoying that I can’t access the [...]
