According to a story in The Los Angeles Times, recent graduate Ryan Stevens sought to put his business degree from Cal State Sacramento to use by creating a website where students can buy and sell lecture notes, old homework, study guides and other class materials. The site, NoteUtopia.com, which was launched in August, is intended […]
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According to Gutenberg News every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to the expiration of copyrights and the availability of public domain works, which have been kept under publishing monopolies. This coming January 1, Europeans will see a nice list of great works entering the public
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Artist Evan Roth has a radical idea to help let our ideas live long after we die. Taking inspiration from organ donation programs, Roth advocates donating intellectual property to the public domain to contribute to the ‘progress of science’ and ensure that your creative legacy lives on. Why let all of your ideas die with
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ReadWriteWeb reports that Creative Commons has announced the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that will help easily identify those works that are free of copyright restrictions. The mark – the letter C that’s associated with the symbol for copyright, but with a slash through it – is meant to make it clear
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David Kravets over at Wired reports that Righthaven, the Las Vegas-based copyright troll, may have sued one website too many. The Electronic Frontier Foundation hit the company with a lawsuit Monday alleging Righthaven is abusing copyright law by suing for excerpting or posting newspaper articles without permission. Law firm Righthaven was formed earlier this year
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Quick, what’s the name of the blanket with sleeves? USA Today Reports that if you said Snuggie, you’d be in good company. But that wouldn’t make Gary Clegg or Sean Iannuzzi very happy. Clegg created the Slanket and Iannuzzi created the Freedom Blanket before the Snuggie launch – and then they were out-marketed by Snuggie-maker
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Ponder the difference between the comedian and the musician. Both create and perform works to entertain audiences, but they go about protecting that work in different ways. The notoriously litigious music industry often resorts to the legal system to protect itself from pirates and samplers. But comedians don’t. So why hasn’t the joke well gone
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Every three years the US Copyright Office reviews copyright law and makes revisions and exemptions. Six new rules out from the office will radically alter the tech landscape in the months and years to come. CrunchGear breaks down the changes for us: Defeating a lawfully obtained DVD’s encryption for the sole purpose of short, fair
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According to Wired, fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. We believe it’s the best solution out there,” Steve Gibson, Righthaven CEO says. “Media companies’ assets are very much their copyrights. These companies need
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Music legend Ray Charles capitalized on music publishing angle: he began recording a lot of public domain songs, like “America The Beautiful,” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” where he published the arrangement. Reuters reports that today, the Ray Charles Marketing Group represents about 500 songs from those companies, including about a dozen Charles wrote
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