There’s some wonderful news from the NY Public Library, which has released over 180,000 high resolution digital images of public domain works that it found in its collection. We’... Read more
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the process of turning a 2D digital image into a 3D object through printing successive layers of materials until an entire item is created. Initial... Read more
The implications of intellectual property in 3D printing have been outlined in two documents created for the UK government by Bournemouth University’s Dinusha Mendis and Davide Secchi, and P... Read more
A generational movement consisting of creative consumers who modify proprietary offerings, and of members of society who in turn use their developments, all without any moral and legal consi... Read more
Australia’s been an interesting country to follow on the copyright front. In terms of court decisions, there have been some good ones and some awful ones. On the lawmaking front, we... Read more
Photographs of natural scenes are basic knowledge, and no one should own that Leigh Beadon over at Techdirt has an unconventional response to the LA Times ant story involving an artis... Read more
Canada’s universities are on the verge of accepting a copyright licensing deal that flies in the face of all reason Canada’s universities are on the verge of accepting a copyrigh... Read more
Two sections in particular are proving controversial As China continues to climb up the economic rankings (it became number two last year, in case you missed it) its domestic policy begins t... Read more
Erin McKeown, a wonderful musician who has been very involved in some discussions on copyright and internet access — and who was especially helpful in the fight against SOPA... Read more
New ideas about how to distribute content while being user-friendly and setting low fees are the way forward. San Francisco, CA – In an op-ed published by Al Jazeera on February... Read more
Tribler will be well equipped to set up a peer to peer network throughout the world It appears that the ongoing war between online pirates and copyright holders has all of a sudden shifted i... Read more
Earlier this summer Google quietly embedded a powerful new tool in their image works: the reverse search. The concept is simple. Drag an image into the search bar (as above), and Google will... Read more
A reader by the name of Shadow-Slider points us to a fascinating report from a 1897 Copyright Commission in Great Britain in which the report points out how content is different than real pr... Read more
Julian Sanchez has put up a fascinating post discussing how copyright is really a misnomer in the digital age. He’s building off the various discussions about the Google book scanning... Read more
ON Tuesday, Denny Chin, a federal judge in Manhattan, rejected the settlement between Google, which aims to digitize every book ever published, and a group of authors and publishers who had... Read more
