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Digital Comics: Not as Invincible as They Could Be

Digital Comics: Not as Invincible as They Could Be

As a Toronto born comic book fan, I’ve probably visited my local comic book shop, Cyber City Comix, once a week for the last fifteen years. Every Wednesday I would go by and pick up the latest issues of...
By Ronen Shay on 10/18/10 Comments Off on Digital Comics: Not as Invincible as They Could Be
E-books – The Black Market. Can We Stop It?

E-books – The Black Market. Can We Stop It?

Along with the growth of the popularity of e-books as well as iPad, e-reader and other devices that allow for reading digital publications on the screen there is a huge increase in books piracy, what causes enormous losses for...
By Michal Kielbasa on 10/17/10 Comments Off on E-books – The Black Market. Can We Stop It?
Non-commercial licensing on Creative Commons

Non-commercial licensing on Creative Commons

What would life be without Bach? Far from any discussion of the aura, the only reason I have ever heard Bach is that his compositions have been relentlessly copied, passed down the generations, re-interpreted, re-adapted for new instruments (piano,...
By Ashiq Khondker on 10/16/10 2

Open Data

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...
By Marije Rooze on 09/29/10 1

Book Review: ‘The Public Domain’ – James Boyle

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...
By Janice Wong on 09/20/10 1

The Battle for the Internet

Things seem to be looking up in the battle for the Internet. For years now ACTA negations have been mired in secrecy and controversy. The leaked documents from the negotiations painted a bleak picture of corporations using their lobbying...
By Onur Yilmaz on 09/10/10 Comments Off on The Battle for the Internet
YouTube, please give me an iTunes link!

YouTube, please give me an iTunes link!

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...
By Janice Wong on 09/09/10 9

Information Visualization and the Public Sphere

Democratization of Data Open Data is a practice (and philosophy) of making data freely available to everyone. Advocates of Open Data argue that restrictions, licenses, copyright, patents, or other mechanisms of control are against the communal good and that...
By Jan Bajec on 05/19/10 1

Changing Turn in Copyright Debate: Cultural Industry is to Move

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...
By Harro Heijboer on 10/21/09 2
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
Hybrids for the Commons

Hybrids for the Commons

Our notion of the commons hails from England, where a maze of paths precluded farmland from encroaching on collectively-owned sites, allowing people to trade, gossip, and entertain each other. These sanctioned areas were only shut down if they weren’t...
By Morgan Currie on 09/26/09 5

Wikipedia Art: a case of study

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern are two American artists who launched a new entry in Wikipedia, called Wikipedia Art, the last 14th of February, 2009. Their proposal was a conceptual work that allowed people to alter the page as...
By Susana Zaragoza on 09/20/09 Comments Off on Wikipedia Art: a case of study
Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank

Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank

A smart artist makes the machine do the work. Cornelia Sollfrank German artist Cornelia Sollfrank’s career has been linked to hacking, conceptual art, cyberfeminism and net.art. Since the nineties, she examines the digital cultural techniques of copying and the...
By Susana Zaragoza on 09/16/09 Comments Off on Review of Expanded ORIGINAL. Cornelia Sollfrank
Book Report of ‘Ourspace – Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture’ by Christine Harold

Book Report of ‘Ourspace – Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture’ by Christine Harold

This book really hit an personal snare with me, because I have been trying to avoid most commercial expressions by any medium for years now. I really regard it as an invasion of my privacy – I didn’t ask...
By Sander Leegwater on 09/14/09 Comments Off on Book Report of ‘Ourspace – Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture’ by Christine Harold
Peer pressure

Peer pressure

“When Napster told the district court that it had developed a technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not good enough. Napster had to...
By Bas Bisseling on 04/18/09 5
Creative Commons Case Studies

Creative Commons Case Studies

Almost a year ago Creative Commons launched the Case Studies Project with the aim of qualitatively measuring the impact of CC licenses on the world. As of this writing, the project showcases around 500 Case Studies of people using...
By Chris Castiglione on 04/09/09 3

Online video in China leading the way

An interesting video report by The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) on online video and TV in China and the way that it will influence the West in the near future
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 02/19/09 1
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