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“a device that is capable of measuring the quality of an art piece, based on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition.”

“Upgrading to Vista is the start of an abusive relationship that could last for years.”

“publishing isn’t driven by bestsellers, but by “okaysellers,””

Numly are UIDs, RegisteredCommons looks like a sequel to Common Content.

A business based on making viral video less watchable.

“77 MILLION PAINTINGS continues Brian Eno’s exploration into the medium of light. Eno entitled his collection of audio-visual installations to depict the possible number of images that can be created from a huge number of combinations, a term he calls ‘ge

“The Boy Scouts of America will offer rewards to Scouts who absorb a brainwashing regime written by the MPAA.”

Lots of BY-SA and sampling plus stuff. Oh, however did fc.o incentivise them? /sarcasm.

Insane licensing scheme for fabric that you have theoretically purchased.

Brazilian press restrictions “due to copyright commitments with various international entities that contribute data and images used in Al Gore’s presentation”

Why even “limited” DRM limits you unacceptably. This is strongly relevent to YouTube’s walled garden.

“Here’s a version of supposedly the same character from the 1980s. What’s the difference? No form. No taste. Ugly, sloppy and wrinkly.”

“The notion that a track I buy in DRM is protected and one without DRM isn’t is a fallacy.”

“Artists get paid, while fans can keep on sharing remixed tunes on the site and push the boundaries of user generated media even further.” But see the Set Top Cop critique.

“Just last week, I had to cancel a speaking engagement at Disney Studios, whose speaker agreement includes a clause in which you promise never to use the word Disney again in an article or story without their written permission (!).”

“Criticizing religion, a favorite artistic gambit of the past 250 years, has become potentially lethal. If creative types are unwilling to pay the price, argument will be muffled at the point of a gun.”

“One of the side-effects of the entertainment industry’s war on copying is that it’s created a kind of folk-mythology about copyright being a kind of magic word you can invoke to put a fence around anything that you want to police.”

“The thing is – it's impossible. Trust me on this. I've looked at every angle on media reuse, and unless the content owners (the copyright owners) declare this in the concept of a production so that all contributors to the production also offer their

“Is it possible to see too much art in one day? Probably yes.” Particularly if the art is at Frieze…

“According to documents lodged with the trademarks registry in London, the multi-millionaire former Beatle has begun a process to trademark his name for use on goods as wide-ranging as pantihose, waistcoats and vegetarian food.”

“Legendary game designer Chris Crawford has disclosed some information about his next big project, an interactive storytelling platform called Storytron”

“A Hungarian airport has been bilked into trying an insane scheme to RFID-track every passenger. This panopticon was invented by snake-oil salesmen from University College London. “

“a collection of animals made up using tube lines, stations & junctions of the London Underground map.”

“You can go to animation school, spend a $100,000 and not learn a damn thing about the basics of good animation drawing- OR you can buy a Preston Blair book for $8 and learn it all in a couple months. You pick.”

PJ on an old Caldera lionization of Stallman, and why the “pragmatists” preaching corporate dogma are wrong.

“…it’s like Musique Concrete, which you could never do at this juncture in time because it’s too expensive. It can’t exist. You’re losing a form of music.”

“Mexico’s Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.”

NC (sigh…) but still funny.

Debian Legal show they understand trademark law even less than DRM. If that is possible

“Megnut food blog points to a moral panic among chefs reacting to plagiarism of their recipes and presentation — cooks who propose that they should be able to copyright food. Not that they should have a remedy for plagiarism, but that ways of preparing f

A handheld inkhet printer mod. Very cool.

“An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.”

“Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom”

“The music fan site that anyone can edit.”

“Now comes news from Disney-ABC that content producers have had a revelation: instead of simply trying to squash piracy, it might be more productive to understand and compete with it.”

“By including Macrovision with its products, TiVo is designing a product that is intended to control its owner and treat its owner (TiVo’s customer) as an attacker.”

“Allerca, a company that is offering genetically modified cats at $4,000 each, makes you “agree” to a EULA before they sell you your puddy tat”

“Of course, the reason SalonQuest is going after Olson isn’t because they don’t want her to take photos of the shampoo bottles. It’s because they want to control the secondary sales market, and they are trying to use copyright law as an excuse.”

“Open Source Shorts is a screening of short films released under Creative Commons licences.
I am currently seeking submissions. The criteria are straight forward. The film should be at most 10 minutes in duration, published with a ceative commons copyrig

“Reminds me of the Dover “copyright free images” books that contain a notice promising to sue you if you copy the book.”

“Eurotrash goes intergalactic tonight when two naked television presenters host the first programme conceived for aliens and broadcast to a star located in the Big Dipper, 45 light years away.”

“1 “Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.””

“DOODLE is a work-in-progress exploring the possibilities of intuitive and direct drawing in 3D virtual space. Built to use a Flock of Birds (from Ascension Technologies), we have also made a (limited) demo using a conventional mouse. The 3D version allow

Classic penguin book covers. Brilliant.

“Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.”

Excellent old images of, well, maidens and monsters.