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| Jan 18, 2013 | Ahimsa: Sita Sings The Blues Now CC-0 'Public Domain' | crossposted from ninapaley.com |
| Mar 23, 2012 | We Don't Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything | Recently, I gave a Sita Sings the Blues talk to a roomful of 15-to-17-year-olds. Near the end I explained Free Culture and my stance against copyright, which led to some interesting discussion. Turns out most of them are manga fans, and fam... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Dear Internet, We Need Better Image Archives | Cross-posted from ninapaley.com |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Need More Public Domain Material? | The Public Domain may not be growing (thanks to endless retroactive copyright term extensions) but it still contains a “whopping plentitude.” The biggest challenge to users is simply discovering PD works in the first place. Fortunately the ... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Culture is Anti-Rivalrous | Economists talk about rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods, but Culture is neither rivalrous, nor non-rivalrous; it is anti-rivalrous. |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Shouldn't Free Mean The Same Thing Whether Followed By 'Culture' Or 'Software'? | Adapted from a talk and slide show I presented at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on July 1, 2011. –NP
Crossposted from ninapaley.com |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Is Copyright Needed To Stop Plagiarism? | Whenever I speak about Free Culture at schools, I’m asked "what about plagiarism?" Copying and plagiarism are two quite different things, and you don’t need copyright to deal with plagiarism. To make this clearer, I made a one-min... |
| May 6, 2011 | When Copyright And Contracts Can Get In The Way Of Art | |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Yes Means Yes | Please don’t ask my permission to re-use my work. YOU ALREADY HAVE PERMISSION. Please copy, share, re-use, redistribute, edit, modify, sell, etc. |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Case Study: Leah Day Brings Free To The Quilting World | Having made an award-winning feature film, the next logical step in my career would naturally be…quilting. That’s what my Muse says, anyway, and I’ve learned not to argue with Her. So, for the past 2 months, I’ve been learning how to quilt,... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | Case Study: How To Have Fun Connecting With Fans Like A Superstar DJ | deadmau5 (pronounced ‘dead mouse’) is a great example for artists that want to make it in the music business. He is famed for his great production and unique style, which helped get him noticed and separated from the crowd. That’s a good th... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | Creative Commons' Branding Confusion | |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Are Non-Commercial Creative Commons Licenses A Bad Idea? Nina Paley & Cory Doctorow Debate… | Venerable author Cory Doctorow and I engaged in a friendly email debate this Summer, with the intention of sharing it to illuminate some issues confronting Free Culture and Creative Commons licenses. It’s quite long, but hits on many topics... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Best Buy Threatens Priest Over His God Squad Parody; How Does God Feel About Trademark Law? | Whoo boy. Apparently Best Buy, owners of the “Geek Squad” brand has prodded God by sending a cease-and-desist letter to a priest who has set up a “God Squad” car that does, in fact, look remarkably similar to the infamous Geek Squad VW Beet... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Comically Absurd IP | Certain arguments come up over and over again in copyright debates. Mike recently wrote about copyright monopolists calling Free Culture “neo Marxist.” This is so absurd, yet so common, that there’s a comic about it: |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due To DRM | Sita Sings the Blues has a few Endorsed DVD distributors. In addition to QuestionCopyright.org and myself, there’s FilmKaravan, a distribution collective that handles “downstream” deals with VistaIndia and IndiePix. Their distributions are ... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Give It Away And Pray: Maybe Not A Business Model, But Still Important For Artists | Mike has written that "Give it away and pray is not a business model," however, that doesn’t mean it’s not a good way for Artists to live. |
| Mar 5, 2010 | The Myth Of Originality… | Nina Paley alerts us to a neat writeup (with illustrations) that she did, discussing the concept of originality, and why it’s so often misconstrued. First, things that many people think are “original” usually aren’t very original at all. Th... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | Is It Really Such A Problem If People Sell Your Works? Or Is It Just Free Market Research? | One of the key questions that comes up when you discuss the concept of a world without copyright is “what’s to stop others from just copying that book/DVD/CD etc. and selling it themselves, thus making the money that you could have made.” T... |
| Mar 6, 2009 | Sita Sings the Blues… Available For Free Download | Earlier this year, we wrote about the rather ridiculous situation that filmmaker Nina Paley was put in, where copyright on some songs she used in a movie she made herself was being used to kill the film. It made no sense, no matter how you ... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Copyright Once Again Being Used To Hinder Culture, Not Enable It | I’m still working my way through James Boyle’s excellent The Public Domain, but it’s chock full of examples of ways that copyright holds back cultural expression — and that comes to mind in reading the saga of a movie called Sita Sings the ... |
