Fansubbing: Dutch Court Rules Fan-Made Subtitles Are Illegal And Copyright Infringementibtimes.com - AJ Dellinger An Amsterdam district court ruled this week that fansubbing, the practice of fan-made subtitles for TV shows and movies, is illegal. The case was …
Is Creative Commons a Good Fit for Your Photography?pixsy.com Today, you can find over 391 million images that released under Creative Commons licenses. That’s more than every other type of content combined! As …
Sharing legally and freely for better learningunesco.org We live in an age of information abundance where everyone, for the first time in history, can access all the knowledge they wish. The key to this …
Why secret album-sharing forum What.CD was a music obsessive’s pirate paradisefactmag.com - Chris Zaldua On November 17, music-sharing database What.CD was shut down for good by the French authorities. The loss of the illegal members-only forum was …
Harvard Report: One Step Closer to Low-Risk OA Orphan Works?libraryjournal.com - Jennifer A. DixonJennifer A. Dixon On August 12, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication published a comprehensive literature review detailing strategies for digitizing …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo How to Avoid Being Sued For Plagiarismwritetodone.com - Megan Krause Imagine someone to suing you for half a million dollars because you failed to attribute their work correctly. It would be a shock, right? But believe …
Apple Patents A New Invention and Its A – ‘Paper Bag’indianweb2.com - Kirti Sharma Trust tech giant Apple to push the envelope each time. Just when you thought that this was it, Apple comes up with something that leaves us …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo German Library Claims Copyright on "Nazi Anthem," Censors Documentary on YouTube (Updated) - TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.com - By Ernesto When it comes to Nazi propaganda, Germany has an extensive censorship track record. After the Second World War it was policy to ban all Nazi …
CC BY and data: Not always a good fit.Fiat Lux - Katie FortneyLast week I wrote about data ownership, and how focusing on “ownership” might drive you nuts without actually answering important questions about what can be done with data. In that context, I mentioned
Creative Commons licenses under scrutiny—what does “noncommercial” mean?Ars Technica - David Kravets Commercial v. noncommercial use of CC licenses. Where's the line of demarcation? By all accounts, Great Minds is an educational stalwart that has …
Warner Bros flags its own website as a piracy portal in copyright takedownsboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow It turns out that asking a piece of software to decide which websites should be censored and which ones are legitimate has some problems, which I …
Nintendo orders takedown of more than 500 indie gamesWired UK - Matt Reynolds ASMB Games / Mario © Nintendo / No Man's Sky © Hello Games Nintendo has forced 526 fan-made games off the internet with a barrage of takedown requests. …
U.S. National Parks Download 100,000 Photos of 20 Great U.S. National Parks, Courtesy of the U.S. National Park Serviceopenculture.com - by Josh Jones The story of the U.S.’s national parks isn't one story, but many. These have been told and retold since the founding of the National Park Service, a …
1850s Japan Comes to Life in 3D, Color Photos: See the Stereoscopic Photography of T. Enamiopenculture.com - by Colin Marshall For about a quarter of a millennium, Japan had a policy called sakoku, literally meaning "closed country," which put to death foreigners who dared …
Red Cross Italian earthquake victims asked to disable WiFi passwordsEngadget - Alex GilyadovThis will let Red Cross workers use WhatsApp and Skype to contact locals who need help. Early Wednesday a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy, killing at least 120 people and trapping countless
Copyright Photographer seeking $1 billion from Getty ImagesLos Angeles TimesAn accomplished photographer who lets the public use thousands of her images of America for free has sued the Getty Images photo agency for more than $1 billion, saying it is improperly selling her work
Paper Trail, No Fail: How to Stay Out of Legal Trouble? Document Everythingmoviemaker.com - Gregory R. Kanaan Also known as “Contracts or it didn’t happen,” this practice might help you get out of jail—or at least sleep better at night. “I can’t afford an …
ReactOS 0.4.2, An Open-source Windows Clone With Unix Filesystem Supportfossbytes.com - Adarsh Verma If you are looking for an open source replacement of Windows operating system, you can go ahead and try out ReactOS. But, don’t expect a Windows …
Emoji Send this bot an emoji, and it sends back a related image from the New York Public Library archivesQuartz - Kelsey KennedySome Twitter bots are spammy and obnoxious, with eggs for profile images and misspelled suggestions of ways to get rich quick. But not all Twitter bots are bad. Some are downright brilliant. And some,
Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”Ars Technica - Joe Mullin One-third of the $14 million settlement fund will go to plaintiffs' counsel. The attorneys who moved the song Happy Birthday into the public domain …
All Scientific Research Funded by NASA Is Available For FreeScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill There's something very special about all the awesome research funded by NASA - it's accessible, for free, to everyone. It was a particularly special …
Wikipedia Is Not Therapy!Backchannel - WIRED Staff One recent Tuesday night in the suburbs of Sydney, Elliott* was sitting in front of his home computer, editing Wikipedia and debating with a fellow …
Students ‘don’t understand’ plagiarism, research suggeststimeshighereducation.com - John Elmes Students have “no understanding” of what plagiarism is and why they must avoid it, according to new research. Lee Adam, education research fellow at …
Emulation vs. Copyright Infringementtherumpus.net Marvin Gaye’s influence on music is undeniably significant and pervasive. Given that, how does one measure the difference between emulation and …
Supreme Court Asked to Review Dancing Baby Copyright Case - Kansas City infoZineinfozine.com San Francisco, CA - infoZine - Lenz filed the lawsuit that came to be known as the “Dancing Baby” case after she posted—back in 2007—a short video on …
InventionsSoviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Beingopenculture.com - by Josh Jones You know the sound of the theremin, that weird, warbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and otherworldly portent in many classic sci-fi films. It …
The British Library’s “Sounds” Archive Presents 80,000 Free Audio Recordings: World & Classical Music, Interviews, Natureopenculture.com - by Josh Jones Online archives, galleries, and libraries offer Vegas-sized buffets for the senses (well two of them, anyway). All the art and photography your eyes …
Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955)openculture.com - by Josh Jones I can imagine no better guide through the history and variety of jazz than Langston Hughes, voice of the Harlem Renaissance and poetic interpreter of …
1.8 Million Free Works of Art from World-Class Museums: A Meta List of Great Art Available Onlineopenculture.com - by Josh Jones Since the first stirrings of the internet, artists and curators have puzzled over what the fluidity of online space would do to the experience of …
Franz Kafka literary legal battle ends as Israel's high court rules in favor of libraryThe Guardian - Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem• Country’s supreme court rules manuscripts are the national library’s property • Estate’s heirs must hand over documents, which include unpublished writings Israel’s supreme court has ruled that Franz
XEROXED Reimagining Libraries In The Digital Era: Lessons From Data Mining The Internet ArchiveForbes - Kalev Leetaru
XEROXED Soundnode Open Source Soundcloud Desktop Application Created By Michael Lancastergeeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey
XEROXEDSynthesizers The Obscure History of the World's First Synth, Built in 1901Popular Mechanics - By John Wenz
