notes.husk.org. tagged copyright.

2011-06-27

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photo 01:25:00

Dominic Bugatto’s illustration for a New York Times story on music in the cloud, via Andy Baio:

Jay Maisel’s Kind of Blue photo was used in an illustration in today’s New York Times. You think they licensed it?

“ Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for a cease and desist? Yes. He’s not, as many are saying, a dick for his opinion. Should Andy have the ability to defend his stance that it is fair use. Of course. Should it take the kind of money that only either corporations or the very rich can easily afford to spend in order to get a judge’s ruling and find out? Definitely not. That’s the real problem here. ”

James Duncan Davidson writing about The Maisel vs Baio Incident.

I strongly agree with this. Currently the US (and, largely, the UK) ration access to the law on the ability of both the (sometimes prospective) litigant and defender to pay, rather than the merits of the case.

Another piece (also via John Gruber) mentions that the Sheppard Fairey vs AP case, on the Obama Hope poster, would have made great case law. Instead, that case ended with an out of court settlement. Shame.

(Would it be bad here to note that there’s another public service which has more demand than access- health care? Of course, the UK largely rations that through need, via the NHS, whereas in the US is dependent on employment, age, and to a nontrivial extent, money.)

2010-12-14

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photo 23:45:23

“This painting is not available in your country” (by Paul Mutant)

Acrylic on canvas
12” x 10”

2009-08-09

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photo 22:19:43

iamdanw:

The point where I am told off for taking photos of plants in the Barbican. Copyright concerns apparently

I’ve tagged this photo at Flickr with “barbican ‘radical nature’”. I’d lay good odds that within two days the official group will have issued an invitation, unless Dan does something to put them off. (I remember this happening before, but I can’t find the photo now.)

2009-07-04

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quote 12:34:00

“ Received “Notice of Infringement from Mayor and Commonality and Citizens of the City of London” for LCC Bomb Damage Maps. Mostly, I’m pissed off at losing the commentary from flickr friends, but I think these need to be publicly available. Oh well. ”

Yersinia pestis on Twitter (1, 2). I think she’s right that these need to be available, too; just look at the amount of interest they received.

2009-01-13

iTunes DRM free files watermarked | Slashdot

link 12:40:07

headlessness:

“A report published by CNet highlights the fact that the account information and email address of the iTunes account holder is hidden inside each and every DRM-free download. I checked, and I found I couldn’t access the information using an ID3 tag editor, but using Notepad I found my email address stored inside the audio file itself.”

Slashdot | iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info.

Wait, is this meant to be news? iTunes Plus downloads have been watermarked since the day they were launched, nearly two years ago. The purchaser’s email address shows up if you look at track info, so it’s not really all that “hidden”. Oh, and iTunes downloads are AAC files; ID3 is for MP3s, you want QuickTime metadata atoms instead.

At least the comments at +5 are reasonably sane, and I suppose a reminder of watermarking doesn’t really hurt.

notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.