Buy once, use however

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When I buy a piece of media, whether it’s a book or movie or piece of music, I’d like to be able to enjoy it wherever I want on whatever device I want, without having to rebuy it. It’s already accepted that once you buy a CD you can rip [...]

Appeal favouring iParadigms held

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Just over a year ago the suit against Turnitin.com reached its first decision. The appeal has just been released and analyzed by the folks of Ars Technica.

Making the public domain more accessible

I’ve always been interested in public domain content as a way of reducing cost for students and also as a fertile ground to build new content. I thought that I was in the loop when it came to copyright-expired content. Seems I missed a couple of very interesting developments.
First of all, there’s a public domain [...]

Sleepy notes on IP at UofT

I may as well dump this out of my clipboard. I woke up a little late today and missed the 9:30am start of the copyright round table held at the University of Toronto. I took a few sleepy notes but there’s nothing new in them. The panel included MP Dan McTeague as well as representitives [...]

A derivative of Lessig’s work

I’m starting to think that I should make a page just for mirrors. First Ghosts I, then CNGPM, and now Free Culture’s audio and e-books.
I really shouldn’t have been surprised that the audiobook was fan narrated. This is just the sort of thing that the creative commons derivatives-okay license was intended to allow. Even though [...]

Bell’s Touch is not a radio, my first impressions

On a larf I decided to violate a contract I’m a party to. Yes, I know, I’m such a rebel. Today I decided to listen to internet radio on my cell phone.
I’m on Bell’s $7 unlimited browsing plan. The Terms of Service clearly state that streaming audio is not allowed. It’s one of those clauses [...]