In this interesting follow-up story by ARS, Viacom, owners of Comedy Central, support the fair use of video clips by bloggers. In an earlier report by Hollywood Reporter, it appeared Viacom was going to go after bloggers who posted slips of the Daily Show or Colbert Report.
But this was wrong. According to […]
Copyright issues are particularly important to consider when constructing websites, developing a blog, or creating new media. Copyright comes into play in interesting ways online and it is an issue I have been meaning to go into more in this blog. I’ll even do a podcast episode or two on it.
For many […]
Cosmo apparently supports music piracy! Or it is fair use? Thanks to Podcasting News for posting about this Cosmos suggestion of asking friends to burn you a CD of music you’ll like (and returning the favor) because “Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts.” The […]
As a supporter of the ideas of Copyleft and particularly Creative Commons, I quite happy to see additional members of the “mainstream” accepting and using a Creative Commons (CC) license. This time it is Nine Inch Nails. Their latest album, Ghosts I-IV (a “36 track instrumental collection”), has been released under a CC license—Creative Commons […]
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