A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared.
Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that "the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise." (continue...)
A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.
An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below:
We're seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet.
Copyright law is all about balance........
A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue....)
A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue...)
The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts:
* open, collaborative projects maintained by a community;
* open source software;
* the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.