2008 Mar 5, 3:42Jamendo has tons of Creative Commons music. "On jamendo, artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited."
jamendo music cc download 2008 Feb 18, 6:09zfrechette: "metal plates printed with the bill of rights. when you go through a metal detector they go off, and your rights are taken away."
humor legal politics travel bill-of-rights gizmodo via:zfrechette product 2008 Feb 11, 7:49Thanks Itrasbiel! FTA: "The site must be marked. Aside from the legal requirement, the site will be indelibly imprinted by the human activity associated with waste disposal. We must complete the
process by explaining what has been done and why. "
via:Itrasbiel future science time art nuclear government nuclear-waste 2008 Jan 3, 11:41The legal reasons why you shouldn't compute Pi in binary.
copyright english geek humor math pi 2007 Dec 24, 12:41These days it seems like there's a social sharing website for everything representable as bits. Like
Scribd for (mostly legal) documents,
SciVee for scientific research videos,
Wordie for words, and
Kuler for color themes. Kuler seems
like a ridiculous website (overkill) but I had been meaning to update my homepage's color design and Kuler has an
RSS based REST API.
The API lets you obtain things like the most recently added color themes or the most popular or all themes containing the color dark red, etc... So of course rather than update my website's design I
hooked up my css to the color themes coming out of Kuler. Select my main page's color theme from a
list of random Kuler themes. As I'm sure
the regular readers can guess I use
an xslt and blah blah blah... It looks OK with
Silver Surfer and
Happy Hipo but in general
changing the colors this way doesn't produce something pretty.
When reading about Kuler I found that they may have stolen the whole idea wholeslae from
ColourLovers. They discuss
the thievery in an article on their blog. I would have switched over to ColourLovers out of principle but
they don't have an easily accessible API.
colourlovers color xslt theme homepage technical kuler design 2007 Dec 19, 2:56New Creative Common licenses CC0 and CC+.
copyright creativecommons legal rights business cc+ cc0 law via:felix42 2007 Dec 10, 1:21A photo gallery of photos taken in places in which one should not take photos.
via:felix42 photo photography photos law IP legal copyright art community 2007 Dec 7, 9:52General info on US copyright
business copyright howto legal rights ip via:felix42 2007 Nov 15, 4:04Coming soon: case law freely available in the public domain.
copyright government information internet law legal 2007 Nov 15, 12:27Article on encrypted email company Hushmail giving email up to The Man. Includes interview with Hushmail CTO Brian Smith.
encryption article cryptography crypto anonymity anonymous email government privacy webmail mail legal security 2007 Nov 7, 1:53Link roundup and summary article on censorship in Pakistan since Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution on November 3rd.
internet web censorship politics legal pakistan blog article 2007 Nov 2, 1:29EFF has a fair use video test suite for developers of copyright violation detection software. They picked some good videos.
archive copyright education law legal research video eff 2007 Oct 3, 2:55Similar to the previous piracy ad parody but this is what the ad would look like if it were technically accurate.
via:felix42 copyright law legal piracy advertising humor video 2007 Oct 3, 2:50Parody of anti-piracy ads you may have seen at the beginning of movies recently.
via:felix42 copyright humor video videos piracy legal law advertising politics ip 2007 Oct 3, 1:30"Hatcher explores the legal ramifications of tattoo artists who assert copyright over their works after they've been inked, objecting to the tatts being displayed in advertising -- and even seeking
to prevent old tattoos from being erased! "
boingboing via:felix42 copyright ip law legal tattoo art culture blog article advertising 2007 Mar 23, 12:06Cory Doctorow's novels available for free (legally and by the author.)
book fiction free literature books 2007 Mar 21, 12:38NFL sends take down notice to person posting a video on youtube who turns out to be "law professor by day, is also staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) by night and founder of
Chilling Effects, a web site dedicated to educating the
article cool copyright eff ip legal law rights news fairuse dmca nfl youtube 2007 Mar 20, 5:13From the abstract: "...Today, in contrast to the individualistic conception of privacy in American law, the English law of confidence recognizes and enforces expectations of trust within
relationships. Richards and Solove explore how and why privacy law d
law privacy confidentiality security legal history article 2006 Nov 8, 12:57Abstract Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of
user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the nu
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