WhatsApp now lets you share any file type with other usersVentureBeat - Paul SawersWhatsApp is rolling out an update to its billion-plus global users that lets them share any kinds of files with other users. The Facebook-owned messaging giant first debuted file-sharing early last year,
If you're worried about Net Neutrality, you should be worried about web DRM, tooboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Yesterday's smashing Net Neutrality campaign showed that people have finally woken up to the risks of the highly concentrated telcoms sector using …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Pirate Bay Founder Wants to Save Lives With His New Apptorrentfreak.com - By Andy Of all the early founders of The Pirate Bay, it is Peter Sunde who has remained most obviously in the public eye. Now distanced from the site, Sunde …
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 …
Download Influential Avant-Garde Magazines from the Early 20th Century: Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism & Moreopenculture.com - by Josh Jones “I’m tired of politics, I just want to talk about my art,” I sometimes hear artists—and musicians, actors, writers, etc.—say. And I sometimes see …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 …
FlipboardIcon 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 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. …
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 …
19th Century 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 …
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
Photographer seeking $1 billion from Getty ImagesLos Angeles Times - By Associated PressAn 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 …
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 …
NASA 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 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 …
