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Victory!

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:26:48 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:53:33 +0000

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

CC adopts a Remix icon I designed years ago

admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:18:01 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:41:25 +0000

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.

Matt Biddulph

admin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:07:09 +0000

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.