Aoki, Boyle and Jenkins - Bound By Law?This is the comic book on copyright. Don't be fooled by it's form: this is required reading.You can also find it free on-line from its publisher --crazy, huh?-- Duke University and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain in a variety of formats. You can also 'remix' it and you're encouraged to translate it. It's all here.From Technology Review (free registration might be required) read the debate around the question:
Who Should Own Ideas?
Larry Lessig - The People Own Ideas!Epstein - The Creators Own Ideas!And the winner is...While you're at it, look at your 'friends' on Facebook and ask yourselves:
Who Owns Your Friends...
Here's the Lessig talk we started watching in class.
(I took the embedded video out as it starts automatically and it uselessly hogs bandwidth. Actual download here.)This was Lessig's 'last' talk on Free Culture and it has that sort of summing up about it.
You can find his original presentation in a number of different formats (powerpoint, mp3, flash presentation, transcript, pdf, etc.)
here.
Lawrence Lessig and The Future of Ideas by Bryan Alexander from
Mindjack is an interesting summary article with lots of links.
Finally, here is the site for
Creative Commons. Look them up.
Download Girl Talk's Feed The Animals from the Illegal Art website on a pay-as-you-please basis. Enjoy the 'official' 322 samples. You can find a spreadsheet with all of them listed here. Wikipedia breaks it down song by song but there's 80 unidentified samples compared to the official list (click on the picture above for the official CD liner notes).
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