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The Most Fascinating and Important 6-Second Drum Loop
Now I’ve started hearing this drum loop everywhere. I’ve heard it in everything from commercials to NPR transition music. Fascinating. (Via David) Like Unlike
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An Interesting Thing Happened on the Internet
Yesterday, somebody pointed me to a FriendFeed thread in which an artist and a FriendFeed user were working through issues of intellectual property and Internet etiquette. The FriendFeed user, Kol, had bookmarked an image that he found on a site that allows artists to share their work with each other. In typical FriendFeed fashion, this [...]
This I Believe: Copyright policies as an exercise in good faith
I’ve been working on a document that lays out the rationale for our electronic reserves policies as they relate to copyright. And as I did so, I realized that it’s hard to write such documents without using the phrase “we believe.” I found myself systematically going back through my drafts and notes looking for ways [...]
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Updated Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States chart
Peter Hirtle has updated his Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States chart, the chart for anyone who needs to begin evaluating the copyright status of a work produced in the United States. This version has a new URL, so update any links you had before. The chart also includes new sections [...]
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