On the art world's most recent hit, The Clock, and its creator. Lots of interesting tidbits here, such as his willingness to turn a blind eye to other's copyright to create his art while insisting that its display be under his control. I still want to see it, mind you.

Well, that was quick: "only content that is ‘safe,’ ‘public’ and has sharing enabled can be pinned to Pinterest." Mind you, the headline is kind of misleading (I think- I should install the "pinmarklet" and test it.)

‘"Strike another two songs from the Republican playlist: “Eye of the Tiger,” by Survivor, and “Wavin’ Flag,” by the Somali-born musician K’naan. “When you think about every iconic song that has emotional resonance for millions and millions of Americans, in almost every instance, Republican candidates can’t use the song because the artist is not supportive,” said Steve Schmidt.’

I've heard bits of this from people inside the tech-does-music industry, but it's good to see someone come over the parapet and properly talk about the craziness of licencing.

"I don’t own those other recordings. I don’t own the masters. Those are owned by A&M Records and Blue Note, and I’m not with them anymore. I wanted to own a physical copy of my own back catalog. In this economy it’s important to own what you make. If I tour for the next 20 years I have recordings I can sell at concerts and people can buy them directly."

"Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give."

Charles Arthur: "Recent statements from Cameron and Willetts on copyright and patents show the dangers of being in thrall to IT giants" Also: "[Startups] prefer real streets in real cities, where there's a bagel shop down the road, three other startups within five minutes' walk who they can meet for a chat, and a choice of pubs and coffee houses in which to have ad-hoc meetings."

"David Cameron will today set out a vision of London's East End becoming a hi-tech rival to Silicon Valley on the US west coast, disclosing Google, Facebook and a host of cutting-edge firms have committed to invest in the Olympic Park." "Cameron will also disclose that he will look at a potentially far-reaching change to intellectual property rights after Google told him UK laws are far more restrictive than the US." Well.

"A quarter of UK internet users aged eight to 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, research has found, although the lowest minimum age set on any of the sites is 13." "44% of children between 12 and 15 thought downloading shared copies of films and music for free should not be illegal." Quite a few interesting nuggets here.

This might be nice if it weren't for our old friend, "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."

Good article. Worrying comments. (One says 'use favourites'. What when a user takes a favourite private? I haven't forgotten it, but I can't find it. flickr-touch makes a copy for the iPhone. Is it terrible of me that I've dug out pictures from that (private) backup?)

Utter rubbish from the Industry Trust (who?): "The proportion of illegal film and TV content distributed globally online is heading towards 90% of the total." Surely that can't be 90% of consumption; not that many people use laptops. Evidently they mean 10% of their output is so rubbish it's not even worth bootlegging. Having seen the reviews of most British film comedy, that sounds low...

"Mr Sarkozy is determined to push [the 'three strikes' law] through parliament later this month. He first met his wife, Carla Bruni, a musician who has supported the law, at a presentation of a report on internet piracy by Denis Olivennes, former boss of Fnac, a retailer. Mr Olivennes’s report led directly to the HADOPI law."

'On Flickr.com, adds an option to the header [search] dropdown to take you directly to a search for "The Commons" content. Also on photos within "The Commons" project, inserts additional "tag links" that jump to listings restricted to just "The Commons".'

"It's only right that someone who created or contributed to something of real value gets to benefit for the full course of their life," [culture minister Andy Burnham] said.

I'm intrigued by the different responses across and within communities to images ending up on ffffound.

I'm intrigued by the different responses across and within communities to images ending up on ffffound.

An oldie, for everyone linking to the MTV video site today. " I don't have much of a problem with the fact that Hulu is US only... My problem is with people assuming that, just because something is available to them, it's available to everyone they care about."

This looks nice. Of course, what would a video service be without geoblocking? This doesn't disappoint, showing big red "not outside the US" screens. Just as annoying, there's no upfront warning of it either in this post or on the archive itself.

Danny O’Brien is really on form in his fresh burst of sponsored blogging, and this is a great post. "her confusion comes from two very separate matters that get blurred in the idea of 'intellectual property': copying as the tapping point for revenue redistribution, and correct attribution and sourcing as a side-effect of that".

You don't need an API to violate copyright and creator's rights.

Consensus on the Flickr Help Forum now seems to be that any third party showing non-CC images is in the wrong. I can't help but be disappointed even if this puts me at odds with the new mood of politeness some advocate.

More on that ffffound infringing image. As I mutter aloud in the comments, does this mean the site's getting more attention again? Also, removing it hardly stopped people finding the image.

Well, that's the first time I've ever seen that. "Image removed at the request of copyright owner" indeed.

While I'm on the subject of attribution, how about this: a site which republishes ffffound in its entirety on Tumblr, which itself feeds ffffound a lot of images.

A valid criticism of ffffound - you can't find the source of an image - but at least with Flickr there's a way: flickr.com/photo.gne?id= and put in the image filename (eg flickr.com/photo.gne?id=74). Not that it helps with Blogger's horrific URLs.

Possibly more depressing than the thread about Talk Like A Pirate Day. If you don't want your pictures on the internet, don't make them public. (Posted partly because bookmarks are the easiest way to track discussions on Flickr, still.)

"Despite the best of our efforts we have been informed by Google and the Ordnance Survey that our Virtual London model will not be appearing in Google Earth due to data licensing issues." They're pretty clear the blame lies with the OS too.

"For SomaFM, this means our royalties for 2006 will be increased retroactively from about $20,000 to about $600,000. That's more than 3 times what we made in 2006."

On Google Book Search, intellectual property, copyright, and similar matters. Long but a good read, even if some of the material is a bit familar to geeks.

ORG seems to have grown a delicious account. Suw needs to watch out for the character limit on delicious comm

The whole thing, in PDF format. Key recommendations are on pp6-9.

"Gowers sets out intellectual property system fit for the digital age" - "The Review recommends introducing a strictly limited 'private copying' exception to enable consumers to format-shift content"

50 years for recordings remains UK law. Now to get the situation equalised with the US again.

Mick Hucknall tries- and, judging by the comments, fails by some astounding distance- to claim that copyright is a socialist concept and enables sharing.

Nice overview for those of us who don't know how Second Life actually works, plus lots of links to various places.

"CopyBot allows the user to create a replication of an object, including textures, that is fully permissive."

i am in ur second life copying ur prims

Might be nice, if they were actually free (download Gill Sans, for example, and it's got "(c) Agfa-Monotype" all over it)