The future of the desktop machine?
NOTEBOOK computers are swiftly sending the once dominant desktop machines on the path of the dinosaur. …
– Taking over in desktopland (2009-Aug-04) [The Australian]
Associated Press – Copyfraud?
Old media establishments and their battle for relevance …
We’ve known that the Associated Press has some odd policies in regards to social media and the web for a while. The AP social media policy says that employees need to control not only what they said on Facebook (Facebook), but what their friends said as well. We also got wind last week of the AP’s plan to find where anyone uses AP material online in an attempt to stop what it considers unauthorized use of its content. To say it’s causing controversy would be an understatement. …
– Quote 5 Words From the Associated Press? That’ll Be $12.50 (2009-Aug-02) [Mashable]
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea …
– Thomas Jefferson
Via Associated Press will sell you a license to quote the public domain (2009-Aug-02) [BoingBoing];
… I paid $12 for this “license.” Those words don’t even come from the article they charged me 46 cents a word to quote from (and that’s with the educational discount). No, they’re from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson, in which Jefferson argues that copyright has no basis in natural law.
Does that stop the AP? No. They tell me I have to use the sentence “exactly as written” and heaven help me if I don’t include the complete footer with their copyright boilerplate. Along the way, their terms of use insisted that I’m not allowed to use Jefferson’s words in connection with “political Content.” Also, I can’t use use his words in any manner or context that will be in any way derogatory” to the AP. As if. Jefferson’s thoughts on copyright are inherently political, and inherently derogatory towards the the AP’s insane position on copyright. …
– The AP Will Sell You a “License” to Words It Doesn’t Own (2009-Aug-02) [Laboratorium]
Educating the net generation
Educating the net generation (2009-Jul-30) [APO.org.au] linking to the UniMelb paper NetGenHandbookAll.pdf (2008-Nov-25) [UniMelb]
