WIPO Cartoon Parody
Lawrence Liang and others at the Alternative Law Forum have produced a wonderful remix/parody of a WIPO copyright education cartoon. See also Lawrence’s nice essay called “Copyright, Cultural Production and Open Content Licensing”.
(Via Siva.)
That’s All Rights Reversed
First Grey Album, now The Beastles.
Legally, The Beatles albums will begin entering the public domain in 2013. dj BC’s remix is an courageous act of civil disobedience which hopefully will help in the fight for free (digital) culture.
EMI owns the rights to the Beatles material. From their commercial viewpoint, these remixes are using material they “own”. From the viewpoint of culture, these remixes are interesting comments in two debates. The first one is about the debate on “intellectual property”. The another one is a debate of western popular music. What Beatles did in the 60’s and 70’s had a great effect on popular music of today. With their remixes, Dangermouse and dj BC are discussing with the 60’s rock of Beatles. I like these remixes, but not because they are “versions of Beatles” but because they are brilliant compositions of material old and new.
“That’s All Right” by Elvis will enter public domain in EU January 1st next year.
Free Software in French
It is unfortunate I don’t speak French, because there seems to be a couple of articles on free software written in French. For instance, Une introduction philosophique au copyleft by Miguel Quaremme.
