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“The RGBLED and mRGBLED controllers allow you to control the color of RGBLEDs. This might sound trivial, but it actually takes a lot of resources to let you be able to set an RGBLED to any color you’d like.”

“The Public Catalogue Foundation has come up with the first informed estimate for the number of paintings held in public collections in the United Kingdom: over 150,000. Of these, the foundation says, over 80% are not on view to the public. “

“we're in a conflict between two ethical imperatives, and we must balance them appropriately in order to live ethically. Artists need to make a living, and excellence should be rewarded.”

“onliness v.1.0.1 is released as open source music. the album itself along with the v1.0.1 audio source files and programming are available for free download and modification.”

“onliness v1.0.1 is released as Open Source Music (OSM). demon doc defines OSM as any musical composition(s) where the copyright owner…”

Ideologically driven Free Art project under the FDL.

Scans of historical anatomy books.

” OpenFest 2006
4-th annual cAonference, 4–5-th November, 2006 г.
Central Military Club, Sofia”

“this is apparently some kind of a covenant not to sue, not a true cross licensing deal. I think that’s how they plan to step over and around the GPL. The Novell FAQ says the deal was worked out with the GPL in mind. Right. Like how not to abide by it.”

“You’ll perhaps remember NEWSgrist’s coverage of Blanch v. Koons (Nov. 2005): Jeff Koons had won a summary judgment in a case he took on when commercial photographer Andrea Blanch sued him for copyright infringement; Blanch appealed, and has lost. This is

“This year, Ronin Press released a new edition of the Principia Discordia, changing the title to Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion, altering some of the text, and slapping a copyright on the work. This has angered many of Discordia’s pope

“Seems like no one wants to “sell” you anything anymore — everything comes with a lame-ass “agreement” that you don’t get to negotiate.”

“Mel Horan mock-up of a ‘Free Culture’ activity patch to be offered by the BSA in lieu of the current ‘Respect Copyright’ patch. Of course, it comes with a much more challenging set of requirements to earn it.”

“The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that artist Jeff Koons' incorporation of a photograph into a collage painting was fair use.”

A show in Japan with new work by Harold Cohen and AARON. Via Kazushi Mukaiyama.

“How could we operate if there wasn't copyright? What's the bare minimum we might exist with?”

"Last week I went to a series of sessions run by Birkbeck, the AHRC New Directions in Copyright Network, and the Public Programmes Department of the Tate Modern, entitled Roundtable Discussions on the Future of Copyright and the Regulation of Creativ

“”Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The measurements are graphically represented by comments