Tag Archives: copyright

Promotion or Contribution?

Joris Pekel | 03 October 2010, 7:28 pm | tags: , , , ,

Wikipedia is the biggest online encyclopedia in the world. In the English version one can find almost 3,5 million pages. With more than 640.000 pages, the Dutch version comes in the fifth place, next to Italy and Poland. So to find a subject where I could write something about, and one that did not already have a page,…

Open Data

Marije Rooze | 29 September 2010, 1:04 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

There is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. (Berners-Lee, 2010)

Tim Berners-Lee is optimistic in his 2010 Ted talk The year open data went worldwide. Berners-Lee is one of the advocates for open data, he is trying to archieve that governments, companies and communities put their data sets online. When all this data is accessible, online…

Book Review: Inherend Vice, bootleg history of videotape and copyright. By Lucas Hilderbrand.

Lotte Woerde | 21 September 2010, 4:02 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since I grew up in the eighties, the complete history of videotape which this book starts off with made me visit places I passed a long time ago. At moments the recognition was instantly. For instance I recollect a Monday morning in the early nineties, when I was about ten years old. We were sitting in a circle in classroom.…

Book Review: ‘The Public Domain’ – James Boyle

Janice Wong | 20 September 2010, 10:48 am | tags: , ,

The Public Domain - by James Boyle‘The Public Domain’ - Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by James Boyle is an attempt to tell the story of the battles of intellectual property law, what happens to the information on the Internet, and what should be done.

YouTube, please give me an iTunes link!

Janice Wong | 09 September 2010, 5:42 pm | 9 comments | tags: , ,

YouTube does not endorse infringement of copyright. But with so many newly uploaded videos per day, YouTube has had to come up with alternatives to terminating the accounts of every poor 14 year old who decides to make a slideshow to their favourite Lady Gaga song. Now on certain videos, there are advertising links to iTunes if you use an available song.

Changing Turn in Copyright Debate: Cultural Industry is to Move

Harro Heijboer | 21 October 2009, 11:51 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Many theorist have already expressed their concern with the current copyright system; Simon Frith (1987), Lawrence Lessig (2002), Yochai Benkler (2005), Hal R. Varian (2005), Chris Anderson (2009) and many others. A lot of their arguments are based on cultural development and innovation. Argument from pro copyright organizations on the other hand are not about cultural development or innovation, but…

Embedded Video Can Cost You a Lot (in Holland)

Han Rusman | 02 October 2009, 5:19 pm | 8 comments | tags: , ,

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 comes to this: embedding 6 videos will cost a blogger 130 euro a year, 30 video’s will cost…

Book Report: Virtualpolitik by Elizabeth Losh

Jan Bajec | 14 September 2009, 11:07 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

 

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 study of electronic ephemera that expresses themes of nationalism or globalization.

The book Virtualpolitik: an electronic history of government media-making in…

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

Marc Stumpel | 13 September 2009, 8:12 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

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 impact of the analog videotape era to create a refreshing view of the analog past’s heritage to the digital age.

The…

The Pirate Bay on trial

Rosa Menkman | 17 February 2009, 2:20 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

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 quote from Peter Sunde: “We know that about 80% of all the traffic on the internet is torrent related. About half…