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Some art from 1923 is finally entering the US public domain after a 20-year extension passed by congress in 1998. In addition to a partial list of works here, check out the What Could Have Been section to feel the impact of that 1998 decision. They also have a good page about Why the Public Domain Matters.
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The song Happy Birthday is finally free! You might even start hearing it in chain restaurants again instead of that "Happy, Happy Birthday from all of us to you!" monstrosity.
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This is Andy Baio's annual round-up of online movie piracy. This year: HD video makes leaked screeners irrelevant. "Already, with a month to go before the ceremony, 89% of this year’s nominated films have already leaked in high quality online, more than last year."
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I had no idea that Oregon tried to keep minorities out in its early years. It's a depressing article but it's important to understand our history.
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Hey, nice idea: public unit tests.
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Background bird chirping in a YouTube video is mistaken for content under copyright. Highlights of a broken system ensue.
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Horrible one-star Amazon reviews. [via MetaFilter]
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"Once the market matures, the pirates go away. They always do. Legitimate markets work better than pirate markets."
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"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."
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"Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town!" This is both absolutely true and heartbreaking.
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"...only large companies and publishers can bear these [legal] costs. My fear is that It’s only a matter of time before developers find the risks and expenses prohibitive and retreat to the safety of a larger organization." [via waxy]
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Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]
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Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]
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This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]
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Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.
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"I figured I'd chime in with my own experiences as a woman, except I want to try and reconstruct as best I can exactly how this instinctual fear evolved for me and what it really means in practice..." Chilling comments that made me see the world in a different way.
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"[Fighting takedown notices] increase the 'cost' of sending cease-and-desists, as they make potential claimants consider the publicity risks being made to look foolish, bullying, or worse." These stories are great, but rare.
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"...there is one asset that is still quite significant and the value of it is growing, not shrinking. It is their large, well trained, and well connected salesforces." A nice contrast to Clary Shirky's recent article Rescuing The Reporters. [via anil]
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Hey, these HTML 5 attributes actually work on the iPhone! I set this up on the forms at Fuelly Mobile.
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"I think you’re safer dealing with people who can improve your site holistically." Rafe responds to Derek's SEO rant.
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Yahoo Music is shutting down and their customers are losing their music. Ed Felton reminds, "Yahoo deserves blame here, but let's not forget who else contributed to this mess."
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"Here are ten things newspapers could do, right now, to improve the quality of the comments on their sites."
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"I do wonder, however, whether my son will someday feel that his privacy is being violated, or more likely, be embarrassed about the site." I struggle with this issue too and it's why I don't post very much in public about my son. [via Daddy Types]
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"Google is to be forced to release the records of every video watched on YouTube, including user names and web addresses, to entertainment company Viacom after a US federal court ruling." Copyright trumps privacy. [via MeFi]
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"Perhaps the right answer is to excise the links from the old posts and to add a note explaining why the links were removed." Rafe brings up a good reason why you might need to alter archives and how you might handle it in a way that doesn't break links.
Almost completely unrelated, I enjoyed Top 5 bits of advice for first-time readers of Moby-Dick which I found via Austin Kleon but now can't find a direct link to that mention. Moby Dick is not in copyright so it's easy to track down. har har.