COPYCENSE

"When Chuck D and the Fine Arts Militia released their latest single, ‘No Meaning No,’ several months ago, they didn’t try to stop people from circulating free copies on the Internet. They encouraged it.

"They posted the entire 3-minute, 12-second song and its various vocal, drum and guitar components online and invited everyone to view, copy, mix, remix, sample, imitate, parody and even criticize it.

"The result has been the creation of a flood of derivative work ranging from classical twists on the hip-hop piece to video interpretations of the song. The musicians reveled in the instant fan base. They were so pleased that they recently decided to publish their next entire album, due later this spring, the same way, becoming the first major artists to do so."

Ariana Eunjung Cha. Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright. WashingtonPost.com. March 15, 2004.

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"Looking for photos, music, text, books and other content that’s free to share or modify for your own purposes? The Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally) free stuff on the web.

"The Creative Commons was founded in 2001 to introduce a new form of copyright that’s less restrictive than the ‘all rights reserved’ approach generally in practice today. The goal was to restore ‘balance, compromise, and moderation – once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally.’

"By using a Creative Commons license, content creators adopt a ‘some rights reserved’ form of copyright that encourages sharing and modifying content by others."

Chris Sherman. Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons. SearchEngineWatch. March 3, 2005.

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"I’m not one of these people who thinks you need a graduate degree, an ID card or an official stamp of approval to call yourself a journalist. Anyone with an idea and a computer can now play the role of reporter, commentator or social critic. People can tell the difference between a New York Times correspondent and BozoBlogger.com, and both have something to contribute.

"But this is starting to matter for legal reasons. Time magazine’s Matt Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times may wind up going to jail for protecting their sources in the Valerie Plame case, but at least they have the standing as journalists to challenge the prosecutor who wants to imprison them. Would a blogger have the same standing?"

Howard Kurtz. Regulating Cyberspace?. WashingtonPost.com. March 11, 2005.

See also:
Jonathan Glater. At a Suit’s Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too?. The New York Times. March 7, 2005.

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"If you haven’t heard about Google’s plan to digitize millions of books, you must live in another galaxy. Hardly a news outlet in the country, digitized or no, missed the story at the end of last year.

"Most people were pleased by the news. It seemed that books would finally be available at your fingertips. Google had embarked on a grand scheme to digitize the world’s greatest works, in cooperation with the world’s greatest libraries. Break out the champagne!

"Not a few bean counters at colleges and universities around the world must have thought, ‘At long last. We can kick the library in the archives and be done with that financial black hole.’ Some librarians may have had a similar vision of the future and been dismayed, although most of them were optimistic about Google’s plan."

Mary Y. Herring. Don’t Get Goggle-Eyed Over Google’s Plan to Digitize. The Chronicle Review. March 11, 2005.

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"Podcasts are reinventing talk radio on the Web. These homemade audio downloads have become popular since they were introduced last year. Pontificate on your political opinions, praise your favorite bands, interview your hero — the possibilities are limitless.

"Podcasts were created by fans of the Apple iPod, but you don’t need an iPod or a Mac to make your own. Properly configured, the average Linux distribution can podcast with the best of them. Here’s how."

Johnathon Williams. Podcasting from Linux. Newsforge. March 2, 2005.

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"Remember the Web in 1994? Lots of pictures of pet cats and long lists of people’s favorite junk foods.

"Podcasting is in the same place today as the Web was in 1994. These personal radio broadcasts, designed to be downloaded to an iPod or similar MP3 player, are homespun, rough-edged, and — let’s be honest — not all that riveting.

"One problem is that, much like the Web before advertising and e-commerce, there’s no money in podcasting yet. I doubt we would have seen Google, eBay, CNN.com, or Mapquest emerge if the Web had remained a commerce-free zone. Ads and transactions on the Web gave everyone an incentive to produce high-quality websites, from start-ups like eBay to giant media corporations like CNN to individuals like Harry Knowles, who runs the movie insiders’ site Ain’t It Cool News."

Scott Kirsner. Podcasting Faces Growing Pains. Boston Globe. Feb. 28, 2005.

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"Kanoodle, a search-advertising specialist, wants to help turn blogging into small business.

"On Monday, the company introduced a self-service system that lets online publishers pair advertising with their RSS feeds. Called BrightAds RSS (after the technology format known as Really Simple Syndication), the service takes advantage of Kanoodle’s keyword advertising system to match Web content to relevant ads. Once a publisher signs up, an advertising link will piggyback on its syndicated feed sent to third-party news readers.

"And with the help of Moreover Technologies, the service will offload a publisher’s infrastructure demands of delivering RSS feeds to hundreds or thousands of readers. Moreover’s technology will do the work."

Stefanie Olsen. Firm Eyes RSS Feeds as Ad Vehicle. News.com. Feb. 28, 2005.

See also:
Pamela Parker. Kanoodle Expands RSS Ads to Smaller Publishers. ClickZNews. Feb. 28, 2005.

Kanoodle. Kanoodle Announces ‘BrightAds RSS’ – First Self-Service RSS Feed Monetization and Distribution Service, in Partnership with Moreover Technologies. (Press Release. Feb. 28, 2005.

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