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McCain in Trouble for Copyright Infringement

Perhaps it was the mention of disputed fair use that caught my attention.
Jackson Browne is not a conservative AND has a history of not allowing his music to be used in ads. Yet, part of “Running on Empty” evidently was matched to video in a McCain presidential ad.
Now, the lawyers are involved. [...]

Posted 20 November 2008 § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Related Posts

Blogs end up being about complex connections. As the amount of material I have generated over the years is considerable, I have lost track of whether or not I have offered related content in the past. The idea of identifying connections within this collection of entries is appealing.
Yet Another Related Post Plugin is a tool [...]

Posted 20 November 2008 § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Quibbling About Copyright and Fair Use Is Off Target

The recent release of a “best practices” guide to copyright and fair use has generated the typical echo effect among educational bloggers. It is pretty obvious from my previous comments that there is something about more and more liberal interpretation of “fair use” that annoys me. The exact source of this annoyance is difficult to [...]

Posted 19 November 2008 § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Paranoid? I am no longer alone

I am no longer one of the few worried about investing too much time in free online services. See Jason Perlow’s post concerning Flickr (my previous example) with the recent resignation of Jerry Yang and the possibility Yahoo! may tank. If you have made heavy use of Flickr and have assumed your image collection is [...]

Posted 19 November 2008 § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Google Offering Life Photos

When I was a kid, we subscribed to Life magazine. According to Wikipedia, Life offered its last issue on April 20, 2007. I must say I hadn’t noticed. I guess many of us have moved on to other media.
The Life collection of images has historical value and now Google is providing all of us access. [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

My Type

Typealizer claims the ability to identify your personality type based on a substantial sample of your writing. Blogs make a good data source. While I am skeptical, I did give it a try and the results make some sense. Actually, my wife gave it a try and said this sounds exactly like you.
Typealizer categorized me [...]

Posted 17 November 2008 § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Who Gets to Decide What is Fair?

Recently a group of folks convened in an effort to consider the topic of fair use in education. The group generated a report and some have gone as far as to proclaim “Finally the end to copyright confusion has arrived”. The document generated by this group is available online (Best practices document - pdf) and [...]

Posted 13 November 2008 § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: