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Creative Freedom

2012/05/31 Written by Blogs , Free Culture

NEWBIE BLOGGER INITIATIVE, 31 MAY – Wow, month’s end already! I’d like to do one more piece for the fabulous Newbie Blogger Initiative, and it should probably be one of my most passionate topics, Creative Freedom, sometimes called Intellectual Property, although I personally reject that term. I reject that term because I believe If it’s [...]

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WikiTerms

2010/12/20 Written by Free Culture

http://diasporadical.com/2010/12/16/time-person-of-the-year-is-zuckerberg-not-assange/ http://www.hulu.com/watch/202005/saturday-night-live-a-message-from-mark-zuckerberg It was really only a few years ago that everything I produced was Copyright All Rights Reserved. Then I met Jay Dedman. Then I met Micki Krimmel. Then I met Jon Phillips. Then I met Richard Stallman. Then I timidly dipped my toe in the waters of Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike. And for [...]

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Open Source Vaneeesa

2010/07/30 Written by Open Source

Saying that my avatar is Creative Commons Attribution doesn’t really mean much if I don’t make the source files available, so here you go…

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Secondary Creators

2010/07/05 Written by Free Culture

I’ve already said a lot about Free Culture. I just want to make 2 finer points: the one made by Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute in his video above, and another slight variation on this idea of “secondary creators.” Copyright is a cultural compromise: instead of letting a culture make the most use of [...]

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Easy to Break & Easy to Fix

2009/10/05 Written by Free Culture

The 20th century was the age of mass media, a gigantic, top-down, few-to-many mode of transmitting information, of creating culture. The bulk of global media was famously controlled by a half dozen rich white guys. I don’t know about you, but they didn’t speak for me. Before the mass age, communication came from the family, [...]

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Eloh Eliot

2009/05/28 Written by Second Life

In the middle of a barren snow drift in Lippert stands, unexpectedly, a small patch of sunflowers. And in the middle of that tiny patch of sunflowers stands the greatest gift in all of SL: Four crates of free, but priceless, Pleiades skins from Eloh Eliot. Another, Lippert: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lippert/67/194/166 I can’t even begin to guess [...]

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