Photoshopped Creative Commons image wins photography prize [updated] - 1 views
How the music industry managed to screw itself so spectacularly - Simply Zesty - Simply... - 0 views
curator's ǝpoɔ - 8 views
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Every piece of information we encounter was put before us by someone who worked to create it, discover it, or bring it to our attention. Attribution is about acknowledging that labor and simply saying ‘thank you.”
gladwell dot com - something borrowed - 2 views
Seth's Blog: Simple thoughts about fair use - 4 views
flickrCC - art - 4 views
Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool - 3 views
Everything is a Remix Part 4 on Vimeo - 3 views
Creative Commons Kiwi - Creative Commons - 7 views
The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views
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But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
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They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
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Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free.
My Struggle With Technology - 0 views
Media Breaker-for talking back (and teaching fair use) - @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch - 0 views
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