http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3747963.stm
Hope none of the good stuff was damaged. Do they make flame-retardant canvas?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3747963.stm
Hope none of the good stuff was damaged. Do they make flame-retardant canvas?
They cover music and combining works much better than the 1.0 license, but miss the crucial “representation of authority to contribute” clause that makes people think about whether they really are allowed to release Star Wars as Open Content. This was too strict in the original license, but is present in a milder form in several other licenses, and should have been kept in a watered-down form IMHO.
If you are making music or want a good license that allows the kind of cross-media explosion that Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” has seen, this is the license for you. If you are concerned about preventing the SCOs of this world attacking Free Culture, the Free Software Foundation’s procedures for handling contributions may provide a good model.
Congratulations to the CC team for getting these licenses out and for robustly enabling cross-media Free Culture.
I’m doing less well with colour. I’ve got LittleCMS, but the idea of having colour primaries as gamut-limit XYZA tuples means that gamut checking hopefully isn’t a problem. What LCMS could be useful for is mapping the abstract percentage of the colour to the actual strength of colour on the screen or the press, which won’t be linear. But I don’t know if I want to do that just yet.
How do we do colour picking? Make an image with percentages of each of the primaries in, display that, and update the mix when the user clicks, accepting when they double click. Who needs GUI widgets? 🙂
Sample chapter, “hackers and painters” (pdf).
See the book site for more details and reviews.
More Paul Graham essays can be found on his web site.
Now if he can just get on with Arc… 🙂
I look forward to the first book on art by a chef. We will find that
aesthetics is inferior to cooking, that pigments are inferior to
spices, that the gesamtkunstwerk is a sizzling platter, and that
criticism should be replaced by large gratuities. Sadly this is
self-undermining, as the chef must themself eat.