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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. Last time I checked Napster was legally in the music business. Oh well, small misquotes happen to all of us…

Read the full article here (and here‘s a screencapture to prove it).

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 movement by designing a logo for them. It seems that they still use it – I piled the three legos on our dinner table and snapped a photo of them, little did I know it they would be so famous :)

Anyhow, correct me if I’m wrong but this is the first time in Finland that a major news company adopts a Creative Commons licenses. A good day for Finland, a very good day.

Update: They still Copyright news from STT – ironically I found this out through an article discussing piracy/copyright criminals.

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 Data, which is sort of a mixture of Open Source and Open Content. Yet another interesting talk and definitely worth while making the effort.

I also managed to talk to Janne briefly about the music business, DRM and open content – have to catch up on that later!

Update: There’s now a video available here.

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 to agree that these guys are pretty good at innovating their service and constantly making it more customer friendly. There’s a lot the recording industry could learn from this laissez faire company and their pricing models. I’m sure these guys are doign good business and reaching lots of people through these services.

Read more at TechCrunch.

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 our cause and that’s always good (meaning we oppose the new legislation). We did a 3 minute interview and probably the show will end with nukeing of a copyrighted CD :) You can see the girl filming the CD burning in the microwave and the interviewer watching it :)

Anyhow, I’ll post my part of the interview here once I get it myself.