Copyright has a problem: It's called the Internet.
Sunday, January 22, 2006, 10:57 PM - Copyfight
Protecting stuff comes from fear. Believing that someone is out to take it, raises the question of what led you to the conclusion that whatever it is has such a potential for destroying your way of life? And since you have reached this conclusion, where did the idea come from to put it on the web?
As seen in Gapingvoid, a great rant on Copyright in The Head Lemur
3 comments Hollywood to Google (on video over IP): don't take it away from me!
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 06:21 PM - Copyfight, Media
Major article from the consultant office i2 Partners War of the Worlds: Hollywood Opts Out of the 'Google Economy':
Hollywood believes large-scale broadband video distribution would only destroy proven value, fail to provide alternative value, and alter a business model that is still far from being in decline. With near-total control of the most valuable program libraries and the business models governing their distribution, a shift towards broadband media will come largely on Hollywood’s terms and at an incremental pace.
Read the article
Download the PDF
TY Damien
The new GPL (beta)
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 06:07 PM - Copyfight
The Free Software Foundation has finally released the draft for the third version of the famous GPL license. As Neco points out there is:
1. This website lists a wdiff -the find-the-seven-differences tool- between the old and the prospective new version.
2. Uwe Hermann also linked a wiki and a comment site where users can give feedback.
3. There is also a rationale document which explains the changes and the contents.
And some more: Linux Pipeline, Proposed GPL Update Open For Business
onedotzero berlin
Friday, January 20, 2006, 09:07 PM - Copyfight
Better late than never: onedotzero returns to berlin for a selection of free screenings in the temporary gallery space Cocobello on Potsdamer Platz. Architecturally- inspired short films from the 'graphic cities' programmes will play to an outdoor audience. bring your bobble hats!
And it's free!
onedotcero
cocobello
Can war photography survive in a world of instant media?
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 11:27 PM - Copyfight
During his exile from Germany during the Second World War, Bertolt Brecht collected photographs. In Sweden, Finland and finally the USA, he cut out and collated a large number of the images of the war that he found in newspapers and magazines. Before long, he had begun to append to these grim relics a series of four-line poems: ironic epigrams aimed not only at the horror of the war itself, but also at its unprecedented restaging as a photographic spectacle. The resulting book, War Primer (1955), is a graphic record of its author’s insight into the new visual lexicon of global warfare. There are aerial photographs of smoking cities; shots of leaders toying with the latest military hardware (Churchill poses with a tommy-gun; Brecht’s caption declares: ‘gang law is something I can understand’); ludicrous propaganda stunts (Hermann Goering cradles his pet lion cub); and a good many more mutilated corpses than most news editors would nowadays countenance. The book is Brecht’s wartime vindication of his late friend Walter Benjamin’s assertion that truth might be best broached by fragmented, alienated, mechanized form. What would a contemporary War Primer look like?
Shot, by Brian Dillon.
Modern Painters [#sept]
The Real World
Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 02:47 PM - Copyfight
The term Real World or real world may mean:
* the stage of life that one enters after completing one's schooling, as in the sentence, "After students enter the real world, they may not be able to sleep late as often as they did while in school."
* a program on MTV in which seven strangers are picked to live in a house for a season and have their lives taped. See The Real World.
* a record label owned by Peter Gabriel that releases world music.
* the world away from the Internet, also known as real life.
* A Real World situation occurs when the reality differs from the theory.
as seen in Answers.com
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