Recorded in Los Angeles, New York City, and Macau, vosotros teams up with long-time collaborator Sam Barsh to create a musical journey through time.

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.

Creative Commons’ CEO, Joi Ito recently gave a talk at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich. If you’ve been waiting to watch a talk introducing Creative Commons to 2009, this is your talk. Joi first hits on how CC helps innovators (especially those online) lower the transaction costs when dealing with cultural works restricted by copyright law. Moreover, CC has the potential lower costs in much of the same way that the openness of the early Internet enabled start-ups like Google and eBay to lower their transaction costs and innovate. Joi then discusses some of the successes CC has seen in the last year, making for an great overview of what CC has been up to and where we are headed.

Google released a browser security handbook for Web developers that details the key security features of the main Web browsers. Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, the document provides a comprehensive comparison of security features of the commonly used browsers; IE (version 6 and 7), Firefox (version 2 and 3), Safari, Opera, Chrome and the lesser known Android embedded browser.

Het absolute hoogtepunt van Emerce eDay was slotspreker Lawrence Lessig, de geestelijk vader van Creative Commons.

Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation.

Net voor de kerst, op 20 december hebben de Ministers Hirsch Ballin (Justitie), van der Hoeven (EZ) en Plasterk (OCW) een beleidsbrief over het auteursrecht naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd, waarin zij hun plannen op het gebied van auteursrecht toelichten. I

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license."

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

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