Posts Tagged ‘fair use’

In this talk given at the Columbia University Journalism School. Steven Johnson argues that the future of digital texts could go in two divergent directions. They could be confined in iPad-like “locked glass boxes” that cannot be shared or remixed. Or they could remain fungible and shareable in open formats that resemble the commonplace books from centuries past, personally curated collections of aphorisms and quotations.

via the Berkman Center, [Today] The Why in DIY Book Scanning | Berkman Center:
Daniel Reetz, founder and steward of the DIY Book Scanner community
Tuesday, March 23, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
The DIY Book Scanner community [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan talks about Copyrights and Copywrongs at Columbia University’s Art & Technology Lecture Series in 2004. He draws on his book of the same name, citing examples of musical sampling including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Led Zeppelin, and hip-hop culture.

On the Media producer Rick Karr put together an excellent one-hour special on The Future of Music, which surveys how new technologies are shaking up the music industry via digital downloads, remix, crowd-sourced ratings, and new business models. One segment, They Say That I Stole This, explores digital sampling and fair use

I received a request recently from David Shields asking to clear copyright to quote from one of my early essays on literacy and disability. He plans to quote one sentence about list-making and the advent of literacy in his forthcoming book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.  The sentence is actually a summary statement of ideas in [...]