Posts tagged “free culture”

Victory!

Posted by admin on January 4, 2008. 5 comments.

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.

Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

Posted by admin on November 10, 2007. 2 comments.

Yet another excellent presentation by Larry. This one’s from TED.

CC adopts a Remix icon I designed years ago

Posted by admin on June 18, 2007. 2 comments.

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!

Taloussanomat adopts CC-licensing

Posted by admin on June 4, 2007. 4 comments.

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

Posted by admin on August 17, 2006. No comments.

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 [...]