It will come as a surprise to no one that Google has lost yet another copyright case outside of Northern California: Google Loses German Copyright Lawsuits The Europeans take their artists cand culture very seriously and understand that art doesn’t scale (See Book Review: Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge). As noted in Jim […]

Photographer Jim Goldstein has an excellent podcast on orphan works that discusses how the Senate bill was passed during the Presidential debates while the Senate was supposed to be passing the “bail out bill” (and that has worked out sooooo well). What’s great about this podcast is that it is artists talking about issues of […]

While I’m a bit late to the party on this one, Professor Jane Ginsburg of the Columbia Law School has posted an excellent article on orphan works which is, I think, pretty consistent on some points with my own view of the true exposure to America created by the current orphan works legislation: “An orphan […]

Here’s something that the wooden arrow crowd in Washington probably would never think of—independent artists quietly coming together to help feed a whole bunch of people in their community. This time it’s Central Texas, and in particular Austin. Operation Turkey started in 2000 with one guy giving one Thanksgiving dinner to one family in need. […]

Another must-read, hilarious bark-cleaner from Andrew Orlowski: The Great Circular Award Ceremony. “In recent years the EFF has found an ingenious solution to the task of finding new pioneers – by simply giving awards to EFF insiders. In 2005, we noted, the EFF marked the lifetime’s achievements of one Mitch Kapor. One of his achievements […]