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Friday, June 22, 2007
North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation
The North American Broadcasters’ Association has broken its own by-laws and trampled the position of NPR and PBS, endorsing a controversial policy at the United Nations.
This week, the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization is holding a critical debate on the “Broadcast Treaty.” This treaty would establish a new copyright-like right, but whereas copyright goes to people who make creative works, Broadcast Rights go to companies that broadcast other people’s copyrighted works. The Broadcast Right isn’t subject to the same fair use limits as copyright, which means that even if copyright lets you record a broadcast for criticism or parody, you will need to separately get an exemption under the Broadcast Right. More gravely, if means that if you license your work under Creative Commons, the people who distribute the files or air the program can overrule your generosity and insist that your fans not copy your work.
If you read on, the chairman of the WIPO committee is ignoring instructions too. Because so much gets done when everyone starts ignoring each other.
Copyright — laura
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Email gets fourth amendment protection again
Boing Boing: Email gets fourth amendment protection again
In a tremendous victory for privacy rights, the US 6th circuit court has restored the power of 4th amendment protection to emails stored on a remote host like an ISP or Webmail, striking down sections of the Stored Communications Act which have been routinely used to grab emails without a warrant.
Computing News — laura
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Captions for Video with Flash CS3
Flash is popular for adding interactive media to websites such as movies and tutorials. Now there’s an easy, built-in way to add captioning for the hearing impaired or sub-titles for other languages. Digital Web Magazine - Captions for Video with Flash CS3 gives and introduction on using this option.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Demofuse.com - Create Interactive Website Tours And Demos
Demofuse.com - Create Interactive Website Tours And Demos
Create a tour of your website that will walk your visitors through it, while it highlights features of the site and tells them what they need to know to get the most out of your site.
No software to download and tours start with a click on a link or image.
Currently in closed beta but you can give it a try using invite code 731125.
