links for 2006-10-17
- Boing Boing: Copyrighted fabric: no selling the stuff you make from it Insane licensing scheme for fabric that you have theoretically purchased. (tags: ip-maximalism notes-towards-free-culture)
- Boing Boing: An inconvenient copyright Brazilian press restrictions “due to copyright commitments with various international entities that contribute data and images used in Al Gore’s presentation” (tags: ip-maximalism)
- Set-Top Cop: Gaming, Hollywood and DRM Why even “limited” DRM limits you unacceptably. This is strongly relevent to YouTube’s walled garden. (tags: drm notes-towards-free-culture)
- all kinds of stuff: The Death Of Form “Here’s a version of supposedly the same character from the 1980s. What’s the difference? No form. No taste. Ugly, sloppy and wrinkly.” (tags: aesthetics form animation characters)
- EFF: DeepLinks “The notion that a track I buy in DRM is protected and one without DRM isn’t is a fallacy.” (tags: drm notes-towards-free-culture)
- EFF: DeepLinks – YouTube Collective Licensing Scheme “Artists get paid, while fans can keep on sharing remixed tunes on the site and push the boundaries of user generated media even further.” But see the Set Top Cop critique. (tags: notes-towards-free-culture)
- Boing Boing: Small Print Project: collecting the “agreements” shoved down your throat “Just last week, I had to cancel a speaking engagement at Disney Studios, whose speaker agreement includes a clause in which you promise never to use the word Disney again in an article or story without their written permission (!).” (tags: ip-maximalism notes-towards-free-culture)
- When life intimidates art – Newsday.com “Criticizing religion, a favorite artistic gambit of the past 250 years, has become potentially lethal. If creative types are unwilling to pay the price, argument will be muffled at the point of a gun.” (tags: freedom-of-expression free-culture)