IP Tidbits

August 18, 2005

Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days.

Downhill Battle
, which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It’s definitely a thing to watch. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully.

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. issue as they see it. Uck.They still don’t get it. But I guess they won’t, given their position.

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons  license. It’s called Orion’s Arm, which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work.

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