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Free-culture Project "Lunatics!" is back on Kickstarter 25 Jul 2013 | 02:30 am
After an additional year of production work, our free-film project "Lunatics!" is back up on Kickstarter. We have a lot more done - some "finished" animation, voice acting and soundtrack mixing, a lot...
Bob Ostertag On Trying Freedom. 7 Jul 2013 | 02:31 am
This piece by Bob Ostertag was originally published at On The Commons. We're reprinting it here because it's a great description of exactly how distribution networks are still strongly weighted agains...
Doing it right: Suing Warner/Chappell for copyfraud because "Happy Birthday" song is in the public domain. 14 Jun 2013 | 09:22 pm
A documentary film company making a movie about the "Happy Birthday" song has filed a lawsuit against the music monopolist Warner/Chappell, asking it to return the hundreds of millions of dollars it h...
Seeing the Consequences of Copyright 14 Jun 2013 | 01:10 am
[This is an editorial we submitted to the New York Times. They didn't print it, alas — don't worry, we'll keep trying with other pieces — but we still think its message is important, so we're publishi...
Make Art, Not Law. 20 Apr 2013 | 03:56 am
QCO Artist-in-Residence Nina Paley's interview with at Baixa Cultura, conducted by email with journalist and photographer André Solnik. The English below is the original; Baixa Cultura translated Nina...
Lascaux Cave Painter Descendents to Recover Royalties 1 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
April 1, 2013 - AP. Lawyers representing the 631 million known descendants of the painters of the famous Lascaux Cave paintings announced today a far-reaching plan to recover royalties from the more ...
Brains in Jails: Bad Metaphors Make Bad Journalism 8 Mar 2013 | 02:14 am
There's been a persistent mistake in coverage of the Aaron Swartz case -- a bad metaphor, but more serious than just a bad metaphor. It's a mis-framing that pulls people's attention away from what ac...
Why Is Free So Hard? 7 Mar 2013 | 01:10 am
Why is free so hard? I got an email from what I believe to be a reputable publishing and online training company, asking about training opportunities based (presumably) on my book. I wasn't really i...
Leo Babauta of zenhabits: an author who gets freedom. 2 Mar 2013 | 04:02 am
Author Leo Babauta at zenhabits.net/uncopyright: I’ve made more money since releasing copyright, by far, than when I had copyright. And: In the 4+ years I’ve done this experiment, releasing copyrig...
Ahimsa: Sita Sings the Blues now CC-0 "Public Domain" 20 Jan 2013 | 01:12 am
crossposted from ninapaley.com I am hereby changing Sita Sings the Blues' CC-BY-SA (Share Alike) license to CC-0. A few years ago I started thinking about taking a vow of non-violence: a commitment ...
