Vi Hart made this video to explain and deplore the legal questions, copyrightically speaking, that arise when a composer converts the digits of the number pi into musical notes;

In this related video, Hart counts, on the digits of one hand, some related musings:

!Hadopi : le Conseil constitutionnel saisi dans les prochains jours http://ur1.ca/4gmv, via @nitot [from http://twitter.com/citizenk/statuses/1845698469]

Hey, J.K. -- can I call you J.K.? -- these are known as "reference books," and, like the HPL, they are not mere "reorganizations" of characters and plots.

That text is Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace." The second version of that book is "Code v2."

Thanks to Universal Music Group (UMG) for providing an easy listing of artists and labels to boycott!

"These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to get paid for it."

Basically, what Mr. Morris is saying is this: * Every single person who buys a portable media player is a thief and a pirate. * All music comes from Universal. * Therefore, you should pay extra for any device you use to store music, you fracking thief. It

The draft of the institute's intellectual property crime report, sighted by The Australian shows that copyright owners "failed to explain" how they reached financial loss statistics used in lobbying activities and court cases.

Video-sharing site YouTube has signed a deal with media giant Warner Music to allow its material to be used legally.

The idea that copyright confers the exclusive right to control copying, performance, adaptation, and general use of a creative work is a polite fiction that has been mostly harmless throughout its brief history, but which has been laid bare by the Interne

An offer: on the other hand, if any company would like free reign to pass off things on my blog as their own work I have a simple offer for you: give me a small stock option in your company, call me a 'technical advisor' or similar, and feel free to take

FairUse4WM is a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization version .3930 and some WM11 versions.

My Morning Jacket, the artists who recorded the copy protected CD "Z" I mentioned here, are doing more than protesting Sony BMG's use of DRM spyware. They are revolting.

File-sharing group Grokster has agreed to halt distributing its software to settle a long-running copyright case launched by the entertainment industry.

That leads to some awkward moments at photo desks when customers' images get barred for essentially looking too good.