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Sneaky Access to Proprietary Media (and Spacing Wire)

Published July 29th, 2006 in copyright, information commons, open access, social responsibilities | No Comments »

Spacing Wire is one of my favourite blogs. It’s all about public space and partly about Toronto but mostly about public space. Back on April 15, they had a post about the transforming properties of architecture and cited Lisa Rochon who said:

These days, in the city of Toronto, architecture is understood as a major transformer. At times, large-scale urban design has taken on a spectacular dimension, delivered as a jaw-dropping provocation, an object to behold, the latest, stupefying commodity. But public architecture also resides more quietly, enduringly, within the deep folds of a city’s fabric, in that zone of the glorious in-between. It is found in life-sustaining libraries and in community centres that invite openness and tolerance and a just society.

That’s right: life-sustaining libraries. Thank-you Lisa Rochon. If you want to read the full text of her article go here. You’ll see that you can’t actually get to the full-text, which brings me to the point I was intending to make in the first place.

One thing I keep going back to the Spacing blog for is their link to Bug Me Not. BMN is where you can go and borrow other folks’ usernames and passwords to get onto password-protected mass media sites (including, for example, the New York Times, and, of course, the Globe). So go grab that username/password and check out Lisa Rochon’s article.

The BMN is a great resource: a sly nudge around the system. So if you have usernames and passwords, please share. Consider it your contribution to the information commons. Hip hip huzzah!

-S.

Friday Fun Link Part 2

Published July 28th, 2006 in alternative media, information commons, other | No Comments »

Not to take away from the foibles of library masturbation, archive.org has, put up an entire conference that happened in April at NYU on fair use. here:
http://www.archive.org/details/NYIH_Comedies_of_Fair_Use

I haven’t had a chance to check any of it out myself, but if Siva Vaidhyanathan, Lawrence Lessig AND DJ Spooky don’t pique your interest then get thee to a nunnery!

Here is the full deal:
COMEDIES OF FAIR U$E
A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars
Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30, 2006
Free and open to the public

Friday April 28, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Saturday 9:30-6:30 p.m. and Sunday 9:30-1:00 p.m.
Hemmerdinger Hall
100 Washington Sq. East

FRIDAY, APRIL 28
7:30pm-7:45pm Introductory remarks : Robert Boynton
7:45pm-9:30pm Lawrence Lessig on The Current State of Fair Use with responses by Allan Adler and Hugh Hansen
Siva Vaidhyanathan (moderator)

SATURDAY, APRIL 29
9:30am -10:00am Introductory remarks: Lawrence Weschler
(Note: Lawrence Lessig and Judge Kozinski will comment as the day progresses)

10:00am-11:30am Art
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Art Spiegelman, Carrie McLaren, Joel Wachs
Lawrence Weschler (moderator)

11:45am-1:15pm The Permissions Maze
Geoff Dyer, Susan Bielstein, Allan Adler
James Boyle(moderator)

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2:30pm-3:15pm Screening of short films: films from the 826 NYC kids
and the Free Culture remix contest. Comments on the
issues they raise by Leon Friedman and Charles Sims.

3:30pm-4:45pm Documentary Film
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5:00pm-6:30pm Music
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Hank Shocklee, Claudia Gonson
Kembrew McLeod (moderator)

SUNDAY, APRIL 30
9:30am-9:45am Introductory remarks: Siva Vaidhyanathan

9:45am-11:15am Now Where Are We?
Lewis Hyde, Jonathan Lethem, James Boyle
Siva Vaidhyanathan(moderator)

11:30am-1:00pm W hat Is To Be Done?
Judge Kozinski, Pat Aufderhide, Carrie McLaren
Lawrence Weschler (moderator)

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YouTube Terms of Service Debate

Published July 27th, 2006 in copyright, information commons | No Comments »

YouTube recently updated their terms of service to say that by uploading content to them, this gave them a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website.” The link above clarifies exactly what this means (including a response from YouTube’s marketing manager.)

That’s all well and good but the important thing is that this has led to a response from people on YouTube including a shirtless cowboy (!) who defends YouTube’s new policy and many many others who take on this guy’s points very eloquently.

J.

Quick Poll on the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty

Published July 15th, 2006 in broadcasting treaty, information commons, international trade agreements | No Comments »

I’ve been doing some reading about the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty recently, and I thought it would be interesting to try to guage some of the perceptions about its reach. So I sent an e-mail to about 50 people explaining that there’s an international treaty on the go that’s aiming to protect broadcasters - so they want to make it totally illegal (and enforceable with new technology built into your stereo/tv equipment) to tape anything you hear on the radio or on TV without the permission of the broadcaster. They also want to make it so that if they do grant you permission to copy, you can’t, say, forward through the ads on the video you’ve made of your favourite TV show. And I posed the question: how long do you think a broadcasting corporations would want this kind of exclusive right?

The answer is 50 years.

I thought I’d be able to carve up some sort of “average” that the 46 respondents came up with. But no go: there seemed to be two classes of answers. The first was comprised of the people who guessed big: 50, 75, and 100 years (many guessed infinity, and while that’s totally what the broadcasters want, thank goodness they don’t have those kinds of rights yet). The second group tended to guess “small” and in the neighbourhood of 2, 3, 5, 7 years.

Outliers aside, I think this distribution is a pretty interesting one: there’s a split between people who guessed at the extent to which mass media corporations can control access to information (and who understanding the game, as one person said, according to “GBT (Greedy Bastard Theory)”) and those who are far more optimistic.

I thought it was really interesting, too, that some people compared how much time broadcasters should be allowed to protect their signal compared to how long they’d actually want to. Of course, the numbers tended to be drastically different as the “should” numbers were heaps smaller than the “wants.”

Here are some interesting quotes from some of the people who responded:

A train of thought on the tracks: “I’d like to hope that if I miss something important on TV right NOW, that I could watch it around the time that I retire (at the latest)…maybe in about 40 years. I hope it is not more than 40 years. My guess is 40 years. It would be funny if it was something much shorter, say 30 days or something. I am now curious. There is no way that this thing is going to go through.”

Drawing the relationship to copyright and the continual push for term extensions: “Similar to how others like Disney keep pushing to extend copyright length - death + 50yrs, death + 60yrs, death + 75yrs, do we hear death+100years?”

…and the other big factor for Canucks: “With continuing media consolidation (Bell and CHUM most recently), it will likely be more” (…more on this week’s consolidation story here) .

An astute observation about motives: “You would expect that they may give up if the program became available for sale, as a DVD of a TV show, for example, because the adfree product would be available. But they probably will still want everyone to watch the commercials in order to encourage them to buy the packaged format. ”

On advertising more generally: “My questions is this: Can we not please have FIVE free advertising minutes a day? There must be a mental health argument for it. Sometimes I try to see how long I can go before seeing an ad for something - and it’s always less than 5 minutes in-between. A billboard here, a brand name large as life on someone’s t-shirt there, a logo on everything on display at the library, a CLA conference program riddled with sponsor names…. I actually suspect there are product shots in my dreams. Honestly. They should leave me alone just for a little while every day. They make me want to run away and live in an intentional community.” Amen.

On the ability to ignore whatever comes along and create alternative media instead: “The quicker these abounded tentacles of misinformation bury themselves in bureaucracy and legalities, the sooner we can leave them to their acquired fate. The question should be whether or not we care to acknowledge their dominion over media, and do we care enough to initiate a more substantial role in creating it independently. Let them have their ‘it’l. Those who feel controlled will also feel a need to resist - glorious.”

…or circumvent it: “talk about going to heroic lengths to make BitTorrent even more popular than it already is” and “They’ll never make technology we can’t circumvent.” My concern is that the more technology they invent and implement, the fewer the number of people who can successfully learn how to hack it…

And, of course, the million dollar question, “How do we stop this?” I’m not really sure. I think it involves writing some letters if you care enough. Talk to an MLA or MP (I’ve never done that but maybe it’s time I started). International stuff is tricky because they do such a good job of diffusing responsibility. If the treaty actually becomes a reality, I think it’ll be important to participate in hacking, spreading hacks, and funding hacks.

In the meantime, one important step is probably to learn more about the issues, particularly since they *do* want to bring webscasting into the treaty (it was included as part of the main text but it’s been put into an “optional” appendix to the main text). Here are two sites to get you started:

Electronic Frontier Foundation on the treaty; and the Consumer Project on Technology also has quite a few resources, along with quite a detailed history and a link to the latest draft of the actual treaty.

Just a final point: this treaty is only about signals. Not about content. That means, even if the *content* is in the public domain or creative commons, it’s made instantly proprietary by being broadcast. You can access the content however you want to through other means, but you can’t record it. Smart, eh? I reckon they’re smart. Greedy bastards, yes, but smart ones with smart lawyers.

-S.

Bits of news

Published April 26th, 2006 in green libraries, information commons, open access, open government, other | No Comments »

Well, the handover of LibrarianActivist is imminent. A group of really great people have offered to take it over. I will probably talk more about this in the coming week (or simply let them introduce themselves once the handover is done).

In the meantime, here are a couple of small stories that i couldn’t help mention:

Civicaccess.ca: (from dose) a new organization sees the day:

Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data (CivicAccess) is a group of citizens which believes all levels of government should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens. We believe this is necessary to allow citizens to fully participate in the democractic process of an “information society.”

Airplane parts library: Green libraries anyone? Check out this particularly interesting architectural plan, made from Boeing fuselages for a library competition in Mexico! (from boing boing… where else…)

BCLA conference presentations: Some presentations from the BCLA annual conference are up on ELIS.

Access to Knowledge: A conference held at Yale last weekend. Here’s the conference wiki, and the session entitled “The role of libraries for A2K“.

Information Commons Wiki

Published February 23rd, 2006 in information commons | No Comments »

Olivier Charbonneau realized there was no entry for Information Commons in Wikipedia. So he wrote his own small entry. Then, he decided to create his own Wiki on the subject. Check out the Information Commons Wiki and contribute!

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“Accoustical Liberation of Books”

Published August 11th, 2005 in information commons, public domain | 1 Comment »

Hugh from Dose has got a great idea! Check out LibriVox: accoustical liberation of books in the public domain.

LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast

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Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain

Published July 11th, 2005 in information commons | No Comments »

The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain is a new website that, among other things,

provides documentation, resources and references on social, economic and legal aspects of patents, copyright and other monopoly rights and the broader issues of privatization and the public domain.

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Members can post relevant documents to the site. The Libraries section is currently empty… so go ahead, submit!

Freedom of Information Logs

Published June 20th, 2005 in information commons | No Comments »

Found in the Internet Resources Newsletter, a Freedom of Information Disclosure Log for the Scottish Government. (with a funny request in May: “Request for details relating to the value and payment of wine stored at the Scottish Parliament”). A quick search found the very interesting UK Freedom of Information Act Blog, (I would love to see something like this in Canada!) with a list of all the disclosure logs in the UK. (there’s also a funny request at the Cabinet Office: “Documents relating to the Prime Minister’s appearance on the American cartoon series, the Simpsons in 2003″).

Congress snubs both the PATRIOT Act (section 215) and ACS

Published June 17th, 2005 in PATRIOT Act, information commons | No Comments »

Two great votes in Congress:

  • “the House passed Congressman Sanders legislation to amend Section 215 of the Patriot Act in order to keep the federal government from accessing Americans’ reading records without a traditional search warrant. ” (Link to story)
  • The American Chemical Society has been putting pressure on Congress to cut funding to the NIH’s freely accessible PubChem database. The “House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee approved the annual NIH budget with only the slightest admonishment that both parties work together.” (Link to story).
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