Wie een foto in licentie neemt, zal meestal in de licentievoorwaarden een beding aantreffen dat naamsvermelding eist. Soms is dat onderhandelbaar (geen naamsvermelding in ruil voor hogere tarieven) maar niet per se. Wie bijvoorbeeld Creative Commons-werk wil gebruiken (zoals bij Flickr) zal te allen tijde de naam van de fotograaf bij het werk moeten zetten. En als een foto bij wijze van beeldcitaat wordt gebruikt, is naamsvermelding ook verplicht. Maar wat is nu een goede manier om dit te doen?

Threat Level had no idea the iPhone was so dangerous. We’re gratified that Apple locked down this potential weapon of mass disruption before hackers could unleash cybarmageddon. This also explains why Apple rejected the official Google Voice App for the iPhone this week. We thought it was because Google Voice posed a threat to AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple. Now we know it threatened national security.

Our music, our culture, our science and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In his award-winning new book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws.

Op 28 augustus 2008 gaat de eerste gespecialiseerde rechtswinkel op het gebied van technologie, media en communicatie (TMC) van start: de Clinic. De Clinic zal gratis eerstelijns juridisch advies geven aan (minder vermogende) particulieren en kleine, star

“Common sense tells me that the maximum penalty for transmitting an MP3 file should not be over 1000-fold the maximum penalty of shoplifting a CD from a store.”

a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

A library for managing license metadata, in particular CC licensing information.

The OCA archive will contain globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content, representing the creative output of humankind.

The issue is that Virgin Mobile (or the advertising company) failed to obtain model releases for the person who was actually in the photo. My understanding of Australian law is that a model release is required when a person's image is being used to advert

It’s not a good time to be a professional photographer. Ten years ago, digital cameras were bulky novelties that saved your 640×480 pixel image onto a floppy disk. Today, most people can (and do) take better quality photos with their cell-phones. Mean

De Zomaargasten aflevering over 'Copyright op internet' - door Marco Raaphorst e.a.

Nederlands artikel over "De absurditeit van het auteursrecht."

From Engaget: “Publishing exec ‘steals’ Google laptops in silly demonstration” — of just how little publishing executives understand

In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of “culture jamming” by activists. These techniques defy repressive corporate culture through parodies, hoaxes, and pranks.

"If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big media today - film, music, radio, and cable TV - was born of a kind of piracy."

"My friend John was trying to think of a way to explain the problem with digital rights management to his dad and friend of ours who don't see what's wrong with it. He compiled a list of examples of DRM-related problems to help people understand what the

Simuze draait om muziek (geluid) in alle vormen. Het is een muziek community waarbij muzikanten en muziekliefhebbers elkaar ontmoeten en muziek uitwisselen, remixen of verder bewerken. Muzikanten kunnen hun muziek uploaden onder een Creative Commons licen

A great Incredibles spoof, pointing out how the record and film industry are working on making DRM compulsory, both on the hardware and software level. If this development continues, you can kiss your fair use rights goodbye.