Archive for category: Copyright

Freelancers as panhandlers    (2010.03.16)

While I’m waiting for tens of thousands of dollars in a copyright-infringement settlement (now delayed), I’m pitching again for contributions to The Cranky Copyright Book. But there’s a payoff: The book is going to be published

When Creative Commons accomplishes nothing    (2010.03.11)

John Hilton III wrote an article claiming Creative Commons makes more derivative works possible. And on that score, he is quite wrong

‘Spacing’ Hissyfits readers    (2010.01.27)

Dapper Matt Blackett plans to republish blog comments in a book, without permission or payment, it seems

The least honest statement Cory Doctorow has ever made    (2010.01.26)

“I don’t pretend that I have all the answers”

‘My writing is my writing’    (2009.11.22)

“Where’s the Creative Commons law, where’s the Creative Commons licence that I could say ‘OK, you can have it for free, but at least you have to ask me for it’? ‘Free if you send me an E-mail’?”

EFF gilds lily    (2009.09.08)

EFF blames the DMCA for preventing the censorship of captioning

Shorter Toronto copyleftists    (2009.08.27)

Take that, Jesse Brown

If the courtroom is not a classroom, why give Lessig a pass?    (2009.08.04)

Why is Howard Knopf deriding Charles Nesson for losing a minor case when Larry Lessig lost a big one?