Trying to explain “Fair Use”
If I have learned one thing from reading Cory Doctorow’s novels, it is that you do not want to be sued by Disney. That means that you probably want to be familiar with the Fair Use concept from...
View ArticleGet your art on(line)
The Getty has made 1000s of images of artwork that is in the public domain available online. Like Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius (c. 1460-1470CE) by the “Coëtivy Master”*:...
View ArticleCreative output, social media & the tragedy of the commons
Ed Yong’s comment on Alexis Madrigal’s article at The Atlantic is spot-on. Can you spot the fundamental flaw in the logic of self-justifying logic of the owners of @HistoryInPics*? “Photographers are...
View ArticleSpace Oddity, we hardly knew ye…
UPDATE: The video was taken down voluntarily by Hadfield in keeping with his original agreement with Bowie and without pressure from Bowie. That does not mean this is how things should have happened....
View ArticleSpace Updatity
We have a hopeful sounding update on the takedown of astronaut Chris Hadfield’s video cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” from the International Space Station. According to Ars Technica, it was...
View ArticleDarwin’s Manuscripts
UPDATE 2014-11-25 6:28AM (ET): Grant Young, Head of Digital Content at Cambridge University Library commented to let us know where the Darwin manuscripts stand legally. The unpublished manuscripts...
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