Electronic music artist Moby has made selected works free for non-commerical media use. It's a pity he didn't use a creative commons license.

Joel Turnipseed interviews the scholar about his book and participation online.

Ed Felten does a great job of explaining the resistance that has sprung from the current encryption brouhaha.

Jon Lebkowsky lays out open-source issues for a popular audience.

I wish I had seen this a few months ago. Actually, I probably saw it in May, and hadn't read the book yet.

The second edition of Lessig's first book was developed on a wiki, and released today. Since I know it well, I'll have to poke around and look for new chapters or a changelog.

Clay Shirky elaborates on how he thinks the notion of "social facts" applies to peer-produced projects like Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's emphasis on expertise will grind Citizendium to a halt.

Stock symbols and patterns used by the National Park Service. These Adobe Illustrator documents are in the public domain.

"Cory Arcangel decided that he would write his own glockenspiel parts to fit all of the songs on [Bruce Springsteen's album] Born to Run that don’t already feature that instrument."

Alt-clicking on a word at CBSnews.com will pull up an Answers.com entry, most of which are pulled from Wikipedia. I sort of doubt users will catch on to this design trick (and I couldn't get it to work on my Mac), but it's interesting nonethel

A project to encourage type foundries to produce a few "free as in freedom" fonts. There are some nice fonts for download on this page, but I wish they had more sans-serif faces.

The contents of this journal issue are available for free download online, thanks to the publisher.

Wikipedia co-founder and critic Larry Sanger is forking Wikipedia into a new project called Citizendium, which will have tighter controls over editing.

Isn't this obvious?

Ethan Zuckerman raises some important questions about enforcing Creative Commons licenses, particularly the Share-Alike licenses.

Via Slashdot, a site devoted to Wikipedia articles that have been deleted, frozen, or otherwise hidden for presumably political reasons.

Ethan Zuckerman's account of visiting Walter de Maria's "Lightning Field" installation in rural New Mexico. The Dia Foundation, which manages the site, was criticized on bOINGbOING for restricting photography of the work.

Somewhat silly story describing how investors are understandably wary of putting money in mashup products.

Advice from an indie band about dealing with copyright issues and business in general. The section on file-sharing is particularly interesting.

Lessig on Sun Microsystem's effort to create an open DRM standard that would allow for fair-use. Like Lessig, I'm not crazy about this idea, but if we have to live with DRM, we should at least have an open standard.

GPL upheld in court

Nice BBC column describing the issues at stake with computers and copyright. I'd give this to people new to the debate.

List of copyright malefactors throughout the ages.

Article decribing draconian provisions of WIPO broadcast treaty. The proposed treaty would give broadcasters control over content for 50 years after first broadcast.

oh dear lord... Damon Wayans wants to use a word that starts with "n" and ends with "a" for a retail line.

album uploaded to archive.org by Loscil