I was on a panel about copyright at the media and democracy conference, with Tina Piper and Owen Chapman. Someone asked about Public Domain music,…
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I was on a panel about copyright at the media and democracy conference, with Tina Piper and Owen Chapman. Someone asked about Public Domain music,…
Michael Geist on HMV’s decision to drop the price on back-catalog CDs: This week, HMV announced that it was reducing the price on hundreds of…
I did a quick text interview with Jon Udell about public data, over at datalibre.ca.
Says da boing: The New York Public Library has just installed an Espresso book-on-demand machine and they’ll print any of over 200,000 public domain titles…
from montreal pals evan and niko, comes vinismo.com: Vinismo is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide of all wines in…
From the Globe (registration/fees required) comes an article by Elizabeth Church about the price of academic journals, and the emerging movement towards open access academic…
Evan writes an excellent piece on why you shouldn’t pay wiki contributors (hint, it has nothing to do with keeping all the millions for yourself).…
[ramble] This is probably old hat for many, but it occurs to me that what LibriVox and many of the other successful web aps and…
Austin, a founder of the top-secret start-up Akoha.org, has a post about gift economies, which I commented on. He got me thinking and, I left…
You should go check out a group project I am involved in, datalibre.ca (so it’s a group blog, currently consisting of a group of two,…