Free Culture Roundup

Museums cannot use preservation as an excuse for banning flash photography (although it could be annoying for bystanders):

To actually double fading would need 100,000 amateurs a day. Most museums would kill for those attendance figures!

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/flash_bulbs_and_artifact_prese.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

DRM erodes consumers' rights, says NCC:

http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6546

The broadcast flag is back in the US:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/21/broadcast_flag_is_ba.html

Singer Tom Waits spends much of his time trying to stop other people even sounding like him:

http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2006/01/tom_waits_copyr.html

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