Category: Free Culture

Stop Software Patents In Europe

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-04-12

Software patents are bad for business and bad for creativity. Help stop the EU from introducing them. The EU want to override the European Parliament’s democratic decision against software patents, and to go against hundreds of thousands of their citizens who have spoken out directly against software patents:
http://demo.ffii.org/

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A Free Library

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-04-06

An Encyclopaedia

10,000 Classic Texts

Many More Modern Books

A Gallery Of Art

Scientific Papers

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And Some UK Links

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-04-02

Online rights:

http://www.netfreedom.org/

http://www.cyber-rights.org/

Open Source advocacy:

http://www.affs.org.uk/

http://www.cla.co.uk/

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Good Links on (American) Copyright From Groklaw

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-04-02

From an old article at the excellent Groklaw :

http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm
http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/unprotected.html
http://www.eff.org/IP//eff_fair_use_faq.html
http://www.quinnemanuel.com/in_the_news/articles/article_working_title.htm

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Drafting The Gift Domain

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-04-01

Greg London’s “Drafting The Gift Domain” is an excellent introduction to the legal basis of Free Culture. Greg takes a nonpartisan look at the history, development and current state of copyright and patent law (in America), the recent development of Copyleft and why some licenses are better than others for ensuring the development of what he calls the “gift domain”. Well worth a read.

Free Culture

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-03-31

Lawrence Lessig’s new book Free Culture is available under a Creative Commons license. I’ve just started reading it and it looks like a very good description of the history and current primacy of the cultural asset-strippers who drive our “intellectual property” law.
As you know, my art is available under a CC license. Creative Commons are working on a UK-tailored license, and a revised 2.0 license. I’m worried that the 2.0 license will take out too much boilerplate (notably any representation that the licensed work is the licensor’s own) and allow the licensing to be arbitrarily changed (the composite work section of the license). Creative Commons achievements so far have been incredible, I hope they don’t weaken their licenses to please a vocal minority of bandwagon-jumping bloggers and weekend DJs otherwise I’m going to have to stick with CC 1.0.

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Music/Response

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-02-02

Check whether that small label is just a front for a megacorp.:
RIAA Tracker
Find similar groups to old favourites:
musicplasma

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Freedom From, Freedom To

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-01-28

Freedom to is suffering in the name of freedom from. Manufacturing enemies for people to want to be free from doesn’t really cover removing their freedom to publicly question this.

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Don’t Buy Glossy Lifestyle Magazines Quarter

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2003-12-20

“Adbusters” were unimpressed by “MTV” not showing an advertisement for “Turn Off Your TV” week.

I propose “Don’t Buy Glossy Lifestyle Magazines Quarter”. Glossy magazines peddle homogenized culture, leech cash and waste time. They propagate unreality more intimately than TV, and are more tailored to demographics. They are a threat to private space and shared reality and another pointless spend.

I can’t wait to see an advert for it in “Adbusters”.

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Open Art: Inbetween Cities

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2003-12-18

“Inbetween Cities” is now available for download at the Open Content section of my site.
Click here to go there.

It’s in SVG format and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.