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Fansubbing: Dutch Court Rules Fan-Made Subtitles Are Illegal And Copyright Infringement | International Business Times
An Amsterdam district court ruled this week that fansubbing, the practice of fan-made subtitles for TV shows and movies, is illegal.<p>The case was …
copyrightDownload Influential Avant-Garde Magazines from the Early 20th Century
“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 …
Is Creative Commons a Good Fit for Your Photography?
Featured Photo: Kristina Alexanderson, via Flickr || CC BY-SA 2.0<p>Today, you can find over 391 million images that released under Creative Commons …
Cable Green advocates for an open license for all publicly funded educational resources
cable_green.jpg Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons (CC)19 December 2016<b>The lack of educational resources remains one of the</b> …
LearningWhy secret album-sharing forum What.CD was a pirate paradise
<i>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</i> …
Harvard Report: One Step Closer to Low-Risk OA Orphan Works?
On August 12, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication published a comprehensive literature review detailing strategies for digitizing …
ResearchHow to Avoid Being Sued For Plagiarism
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 …
Enrique Peña NietoApple Patents A New Invention and Its A - 'Paper Bag'
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 …
German Library Claims Copyright on “Nazi Anthem,” Censors Documentary on YouTube (Updated)
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 …
copyrightCC BY and data: Not always a good fit. Office of Scholarly Communication
Last 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 a couple of times that you (or your funder) might want data to be shared under CC0, but I didn’t …
Creative Commons licenses under scrutiny—what does “noncommercial” mean?
Commercial v. noncommercial use of CC licenses. Where's the line of demarcation?<p>By all accounts, Great Minds is an educational stalwart that has …
Warner Bros flags its own website as a piracy portal in copyright takedowns
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 games
The fan-made games infringed dozens of copyrights across multiple franchises<p>Nintendo has forced 526 fan-made games off the internet with a barrage of …
Download 100,000 Photos of 20 Great U.S. National Parks, Courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service
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. Enami
For about a quarter of a millennium, Japan had a policy called <i>sakoku</i>, literally meaning “closed country,” which put to death foreigners who dared …
Italian earthquake victims asked to disable WiFi passwords
Early Wednesday a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy, killing at least 120 people and trapping countless others under debris. To help ease communications for search and recovery, multiple disaster relief institutions are urging locals to temporarily remove their WiFi passwords.<p>In the …
Photographer seeking $1 billion from Getty Images
An 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 to customers and threatening those who don't pay.<p>The photographer, Carol Highsmith, whose work …
Paper Trail, No Fail: How to Stay Out of Legal Trouble? Document Everything
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 …
FilmmakingReactOS 0.4.2, An Open-source Windows Clone With Unix Filesystem Support
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 archives
Some 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, like the New York Public Library’s new emoji bot, are simply delightful.<p>Tweet an emoji at the …
New York Public LibraryJudge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”
One-third of the $14 million settlement fund will go to plaintiffs' counsel.<p>The attorneys who moved the song Happy Birthday into the public domain …
NASA Just Made All The Scientific Research It Funds Available For Free
There goes our weekend.<p>NASA just announced that any published research funded by the space agency will now be available at no cost, launching a new …
ResearchWikipedia Is Not Therapy!
How the online encyclopedia manages mental illness and suicide threats in its volunteer community.<p>O<b>ne recent Tuesday night</b> in the suburbs of Sydney, …
Students ‘don’t understand’ plagiarism, research suggests
Students have “no understanding” of what plagiarism is and why they must avoid it, according to new research.<p>Lee Adam, education research fellow at …
StudentsEmulation vs. Copyright Infringement
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
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 …
Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Being Touched (1954)
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 …
CultureThe British Library’s “Sounds” Archive Presents 80,000 Free Audio Recordings: World & Classical Music, Interviews, Nature Sounds & More
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 Presents the History of Jazz in an Illustrated Children’s Book (1955)
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 …
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