Comments on: Thinking about monkeys and engineers and copyright

By: The Digital Economy Bill: Fred Figglehorn, won’t you please come home? – confused of calcutta

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:03:40 +0000

[...] like Line Rider. Things like stop-motion video of Monkeys and Engineers, which I wrote about here. Things like this Hips Don’t Lie Parody. Things like the Team Hoyt “My Redeemer [...]

By: Four short links: 2 April 2010 « Murder Manual

Four short links: 2 April 2010 « Murder Manual — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:05 +0000

[...] Thinking about Monkeys and Engineers and Copyright — short read, but makes you realise how tortuous the current remix possibilities make copyright law. [...]

By: Deacon Webster

Deacon Webster — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:54:49 +0000

Here’s a question: With the inheritance tax, the government takes x% of the estate after a certain amount. Should the same apply to song rights? It’s an asset is it not? Also, given the above, how would you handle the works of Beethoven? A 5th of Beethoven made a big splash on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack…

By: Martin Budden

Martin Budden — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:43:39 +0000

If you haven’t already read it, you’ll probably be interested in chapter 6 “I’ve got a mashup” of James Boyles’ excellent “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind”, see: http://yupnet.org/boyle/archives/130. In Boyles’ words:

“This is the story of a song and of that song’s history. But it is also a story about property and race and art, about the way copyright law has shaped, encouraged, and prohibited music over the last hundred years, about the lines it draws, the boundaries it sets, and the art it forbids.”

Actually the story is so good that it’s worth rereading if you have already read it.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:36:49 +0000

So which one is the good world Tom Forenski the analog or the digital. You seem unsure.

By: Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:18:25 +0000

When everything is online, it makes it easy to track, and to pursue, prosecute, demand payments, demand take-down. The good old analog world is far less DRM friendly :)

By: jobsworth at 03/28/10 12:05:15 | Exectweets

jobsworth at 03/28/10 12:05:15 | Exectweets — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:03:31 +0000

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