This article explores the realities of the permissions culture and "all rights reserved copyright" in the networked environment and poses the question: why is lending a copy of a book sharing but emailing a PDF of it piracy? It explores ...Read More
Similar to his presentation at the recent Unlocking IP conference in Sydney on 16 and 17 April 2009, Graham Greenleaf
His principles for public right:
The future development of public rights should reflect Australia’s interest rather than other country’s interests. To take ...Read More
Peter Coroneos
A case for a review of the current safeharbour provisions. As part of the FTA Australia had to amend the Copyright Act to harmonise it with the US law. The version of safeharbour that was introduced as a result ...Read More
Similar to his presentation at the recent Unlocking IP conference in Sydney on 16 and 17 April 2009, Graham Greenleaf
His principles for public right:
The future development of public rights should reflect Australia’s interest rather than other country’s interests. To take ...Read More
I will post about Lawrence Lessig’s presentation soon. Read More
All I want to say about the “Copyright History and Prospects” is “What a mammoth session!” Seven very interesting and distinquished speakers managed to span (at least some of) the breadth of the history of copyright. And who thought a ...Read More
Obviously I am down in Canberra at the Old Parliament House for the ARC Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation’s Copyright Future – Copyright Freedom conference and I’m attempting some live blogging action. After a warm welcome to ...Read More
Despite the cold and not being a lawyer, Dr Terry Cutler (author of VenturousAustralia, the Review of the National Innovation System) gave a very interesting address on copyright and innovation. I very much chuckled to myself at his analogy of ...Read More
Google’s desktop photo management software Picasa now includes a rights management section of its settings to allow users to assert ‘All Rights Reserved’ or a Creative Commons licence. It was announced over on the Google Photos Blog. You can find the ‘Photo Usage ...Read More
It seems like just yesterday I was writing about Creative Commons and photography. But it wasn’t, it was actually the day before yesterday! And now I have another update. Image identification and visual search software company Idée have added to their Idée ...Read More
Before the Inauguration of President Barack Obama I posted about his administration’s decision to release Change.gov⎯the website of the Office of the President-Elect⎯under a Creative Commons licence. Of course US government material is automatically public domain, but the 501(c)(4) set ...Read More
In just over an hour I will be speaking at the a forum at the State Library of Queensland as part of the Ideas Festival to discuss themes that emerged from and entries into the Pooling Ideas: We are what we share remix competition ...Read More
The Review of the National Innovation System has been release. The final report, titled VenturousAustralia is up on the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research website.
I haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing as yet, but I did notice this:
Recommendation ...Read More
How exciting! American President-elect Barack Obama has taken a bold but very welcomed move, deciding to release the content of the Office of the President-Elect website, Change.gov, under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (interestingly a BY 3.0 Unported, not a ...Read More
Did Google really release their desktop photo management software Picasa for Mac yesterday? Because there's a press release that says they did, but both times I have tried to download the Picase 3 Public BETA release for Mac all I ...Read More
Artworkers Alliance is running a competition for Australian emerging arts writers called Eat Your Words. Eight successful applicants will be invited to attend an intensive writing workshop here in Brisbane where they will collaborate with academics, visual artists and arts writers "...to help ...Read More
Google has integrated the Google Docs PDF Viewer Gmail (I haven't quite gotten used to calling it Google Mail yet) meaning you can finally view PDFs without having to launch Adobe Reader (either the desktop application or within the browser) or use the HTML ...Read More
Just a quick note to announce that the Import/Export feature released as part of Blogger in Draft back in June has now been integrated into all Blogger blogs. Now it doesn't matter if you're in Draft or Blogger classic, you can ...Read More
This blog is of course about Creative Commons but occasionally I am prone to wander. At least talking about the public domain, like I am going to do right now, is related. In particular, I want to talk again about the Flickr: The ...Read More
If you're like me, and wasn't satisfied with the sync provided by Google CalDAV, then here's a way to get rid of it since Google doesn't seem to have any information on how to do it. It is actually easier ...Read More