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"Common as Air": The argument against intellectual property | Slide Show – Salon.com
Nice cartoon based review of Lewis Hyde's new book, "Common as Air."
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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
"Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country's industrial might."
Mass Amateur Digitization and Mobilizing the Public
If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
Out now: Digital Content Quarterly issue 3 at Strategic Content Alliance blog
Am late noting this one, but much worth reading here, especially Fluency in Film and Sound: a new cultural imperative.
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Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
Pew reports 34 % of U.S. cell phone customers use their phones to record video. GigaOm reports on this, and notes that YouTube mobile videos increased 160 percent in 2009.
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Wendy Seltzer on DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation
Wonderful piece by Wendy Seltzer about DRM, anti-circumvention, and innovation. "DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with- out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. In the meantime, it forecloses the open innovation that could lead them and society toward new options that could be better for creators and the public."
AIMS project / born digital archives
"The AIMS project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, represents a co-operative strategy among four partner institutions, to energize collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and to empower librarians and archivists in the management of born-digital assets. The four partners in the project led by the University of Virginia are Stanford University, University of Hull and Yale University."
Digital Lives
Digital Lives has produced some of the best work on personal archiving, and is holding a seminar about it on Monday, 5 July.
Mash Letter to the Past
"a survey of mash-ups that unite mapping, photos, street views, video and documentary photographs from ages past"
G20: Post photographers spend night in detention centre | Posted Toronto | National Post
It's a genre: police behaving badly, caught on camera. This time, in Toronto at the G20 meeting. Nothing like police roughing up journalists to demonstrate the openness of a society.
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Anti-ACTA: International Experts Find that Pending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Threatens Public Interests
"We find that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators. … Negotiators claim ACTA will not interfere with citizens' fundamental rights and liberties; it will. … ACTA is the predictably deficient product of a deeply flawed process."
US IP Czar’s report sells out the American public to Big Content – Boing Boing
Cory tells plenty of truth in this post about the Obama administration's pathetic new report on IP. News to Victoria A Espinel U S Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator: trade associations begging (and getting) government granted monopolies don't represent the public interest.
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International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
Incredible, interactive collection of animations illustrating machine parts at the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science.
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FFmpeg Goes WebM, Enabling VP8 for Boxee & Co.
Good overview of new developments with FFMEG / WebM and other video codecs and players.
New Online Video Editor From YouTube
YouTube has launched a new video editing tool.
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership – Lewis Hyde
Forthcoming book by Lewis Hyde, Common as Air.
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The Memory Doctor. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine
Important piece on the mutability of memory, the role and power of faked images, and the work of Elizabeth Loftus. One snippet: <br />
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"The comments, like the data, illustrate the power of doctored images. In a sample of a highly educated and informed subjects—Slate readers—half came to remember bogus political stories as true. Even when they were told that one of the four incidents they had seen was fake, and even when that incident was a complete fabrication, half of this deceived group—and 37 percent of the overall sample—couldn't guess which one. A modern-day Ministry of Truth could alter memories on a mass scale."
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