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I heard some very exciting news just a moment ago; Sony BMG drops DRM!
The fight that I was involved in as well through Olen Rikollinen? -campaign was not carried out in vain. All the largest record labels have finally dropped DRM (or have publicly announced to do so).
This just made my day.
Yet another excellent presentation by Larry. This one’s from TED.
I wrote about the logo I designed for Freeculture.org some years back over here. Take a look at the new CC remix icon over here and in the image above. Looks funnily similar! :)
Those lego-blocks seem to have made it big time! That makes me one happy camper!
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.
