Posted on 5 May 2008 by kdccdk
I am really enjoying Nine Inch Nails The Slip thus far. This morning the full-length album was made available free of charge on the NIN.com, withe the following message:
the slip is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.
we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on [...]
Filed under: Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor, intellectual property, music, recording industry, the recording industry is hastening its own slow death, we own it we can do what we want | No Comments »
Posted on 2 May 2008 by kdccdk
I was pretty excited to learn of the Fan History wiki. It’s a fantastic idea, since cultural studies scholars have made it their business to document and study fan communities, it seems only natural that fans themselves have a stake in the process of documenting the history particular fandoms, not only for new fans [...]
Filed under: copyright, cultural ownership, fandom, intellectual property | 1 Comment »
Posted on 24 April 2008 by r
Last week the testimony ended in the Harry Potter Lexicon case regarding whether J.K. Rowling can prevent the print publication of the Lexicon, a non-licensed encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe. While barely mentioned during the trial, this case is not just about one unwanted book, but concerns the entire Harry Potter fan community.
From most [...]
Filed under: Cultural appropriation, Harry Potter, authenticity, copyright, fair use, fan labor, fandom, fangirl, fans, fanworks, intellectual property, the best fan or customer is mad | 1 Comment »
Posted on 16 April 2008 by r
Works by the U.S. government are in the public domain* — but are they truly available to the public? Some publishers have managed to lock up public domain materials or have not made them accessible as publicly promised.
Government-created public domain materials have been locked away from the public through contract (Westlaw directly with the government) [...]
Filed under: authenticity, copyright, government documents, intellectual property, licensing/ownership dichotomy, public domain, we own it we can do what we want | 4 Comments »
Posted on 6 April 2008 by r
The ownership issues involving Superman have always been contentious but not factually disputed — two teenagers created Superman and then sold their rights for a miniscule amount. Litigation ensued in bursts for decades, with the original creators dying and their heirs taking up their cause, and the owner/licensor of Superman, Warner Bros/ Time Warner, making [...]
Filed under: American comics, Cultural appropriation, Superman, attribution, copyright, cultural ownership, economic analysis, fans, intellectual property, political economy, we own it we can do what we want | No Comments »
