Yep, that’s right – I’m talking about copyright again. Specifically, I’m following up on my previous post, Copyright & Fan Creations. In that post, I talked about how all fan art is copyright infringement – whether you sell it or not is irrelevant; as soon as you draw it, it infringes on copyright. Now it’s… Continue reading How Copyright Has Gone Copywrong
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Copyright & Fan Creations
Copyright law is complicated, but it’s something anyone who creates fan works should have a basic grasp of. This is my attempt at a layman’s guide.
Why SOPA Must Die
SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) Must Die – and here’s why.
Free Culture
I just stumbled across a book called Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. It’s about copyright – but also about a lot more than just copyright. It’s a freely available e-book (gotta love Creative Commons licensing), so please do download the book and give it a read – I highly recommend it. You may just change… Continue reading Free Culture
On Copyrights, Patents, and the Constitution
Techdirt: On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents: This short series of posts starts out really well – by quoting (of all people) Thomas Jefferson: “Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of… Continue reading On Copyrights, Patents, and the Constitution