Posts tagged “copyright”
P2P eating popcorn?
Kauppalehti “reports” that Universal, the movie company, states the decline in agricultural revenue is due to roaming P2P networks. The logic is that as people go to movies less, there is less popcorn to be sold. Mmm’kay. The P2P networks that are in question include (seriously, I’m not making this up): Torrent, Napster and eMule. [...]
Taloussanomat adopts CC-licensing
This is pretty phenomenal – Taloussanomat, one of the largest business papers adopts Creative Commons licensing in their articles. Hooray! They apparently began to license all their articles with CC: BY-NC-ND license. I’ve been a strong supporter of Creative Commons ever since learned of Lessig and the movement. Later on I helped the US Freeculture [...]
Matt Biddulph
I went to see Matt talk at an Aula event tonight with a friend. Matt has been working for example for BBC as a software engineer putting all their “back catalogue” (as they say in the media business) online into a searchable archive that is interlinked with lots of hyperlinks. He’s talk was about Open [...]
allTunes
The Russian allofmp3.com has taken a leap forward in customer service. They have released allTunes – which is a software package for your PC and S60 -phones to browse and buy music from their catalogs. I know this service is a bit questionable as they probably don’t pay royalties to the artists, but you have [...]
Watch telly next tuesday!
If you’re in Finland – do watch telly next tuesday around 4pm (YLE TV2). I was today in a filming for YLE’s Farmi program. They’re doing a special on open source and the new copyright law. I was one of the people they interviewed for it. The creators of the show seemed pretty understandable of [...]