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Embedded Video Can Cost You a Lot (in Holland)

Embedded Video Can Cost You a Lot (in Holland)

The Dutch organization Buma Stemra, monopolist in collecting copyright-remuneration for artists, announced a new price-plan today. In it’s brochure Buma Stemra proudly explains the model which starts at the 1st of January 2010. Although the brochure isn’t really clear, it...
By Han Rusman on 10/02/09 8

Book Report: Virtualpolitik by Elizabeth Losh

  Elizabeth Losh is the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine where she teaches courses on digital rhetoric and public communication. Her research specialty is digital rhetoric and the discourses of information culture, especially the...
By Jan Bajec on 09/14/09 Comments Off on Book Report: Virtualpolitik by Elizabeth Losh

Review of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright – Lucas Hilderbrand

In his latest book: Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape (2009) Lucas Hilderbrand explores the analog past of video nostalgically, and shows its importance and relevance to (new) media studies. Hilderbrand mainly focuses on the aesthetic, cultural and legal...
By Marc Stumpel on 09/13/09 Comments Off on Review of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright – Lucas Hilderbrand
The Pirate Bay on trial

The Pirate Bay on trial

Around 2 years ago, the investigations (which have been the longest ever in Sweden) into the Pirate Bay’s presumed copyright infringements began. The scale of the issues at stake in this trial is maybe best summed up by a...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/17/09 2

Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Anders set up a Commodore to give us a nice blue and white powerpoint straight from the machines memory. I have been wondering if this was an act of maximum open source or not… Chipmusic and the 8bit demoscene...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/15/08 Comments Off on Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

The Uncontrolled Use of Ustream.TV

The Ustream.TV service can be considered as a social network site (SNS) according to the definition of Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison. Next to lifecasting, the service is also used for redistributing copyrighted content. The infringement of copyright poses...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 10/12/08 Comments Off on The Uncontrolled Use of Ustream.TV

Little Big Planet Not So Web 2.0?

During the First Look event, held last saturday in Amsterdam, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Bernard Groeneveld presented Little Big Planet, already presented in this post. Sony presented this “Make-your-own”-game as the gaming industry’s answer to Web 2.0 applications like Youtube.
By Stefan Keerssemeeckers on 09/28/08 2

‘Worth1000’: Artists 2.0

Products of post modernity, made by volunteers are gathered in a big online commercial community: Worth1000. Mash-ups, parodies, manipulations made by Photoshop are submitted in contests and are rated in this digital musuem of amateur art. With Photoshop, everybody...
By Arno de Natris on 09/21/08 Comments Off on ‘Worth1000’: Artists 2.0