Lessig gives up on Free Culture
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Aims Ivory Tower at 'Corruption' Well, that's it. You'll never have to listen to Stanford professor Larry Lessig talk about Free Culture again.â¦
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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The controversial game publisher pulls the plug on a game, for now.
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The company is a second-string wholesaler no more.
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BERLIN -- Pressure mounted yesterday on the Deutsche Oper Berlin to rescind the cancellation of a production that depicted the beheading of the Prophet Mohammed. Chancellor Angela Merkel said ``there can be no compromises" on free speech.
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A celebration to honor the new words, considered too mild by many, was canceled.
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Pulling the liquor out of a political morass isn't worth the investment.
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The name of Court TV is getting disbarred.
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The legendary mime Marcel Marceau is no more.
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Columbia University is back into the debate over free speech on campus after protesters shut down a speech by the head of a fiercely anti-immigration group.
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The company finally gives up on the now-obsolete product that made it famous, and will shut its remaining film plants.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Comment is free: John Harris: In a Manchester semi, Johnny Vegas is enacting the demise of property hobbyism in Britain.
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Before we go any further, stop saying âMini Mouseâ like youâre Mini Me. Stop it. Thatâs no longer allowed in the cubicles of America.
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Saint Colin is no more, and like many a consecrated counterpart there was always more plaster to the man than marble. Gone is the administration &quot;moderate,&quot; and while radicalism is not necessarily
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Swedes reject the copyright reform movement in favor of more mainstream political parties. Pirates vow to come back. By Quinn Norton.
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Free and independent Ajax developers are turning away from commercial development tools and opting for free, open source alternatives.â¦