archive for July, 2009

(UK National Portrait Gallery vs. Wikimedia) vs. the Public Domain

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

you might have heard that the Wikimedia Foundation and the National Portrait Gallery are having a bit of a row these days. At the core of the dispute lies the fact that in march an English wikipedia administrator by the name of Derrick Coetzee uploaded more than 3000 high resolution images of paintings held by […]

the end is VERY near…

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

this is by far the most repulsive patent application i have ever seen. Apparently amazon.com has filed for a patent for showing contextual ads in the margins (also called white space for a good reason!) of e-books… Technorati Tags: books, civilisation, stupid

using Creative Commons as a fig leaf

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

i have always had an unspecified strange feeling about Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is an Amsterdam-based online music platform that allows musicians to upload and share their work as long as they agree to make it available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA). Simply put this license allows everybody to redistribute […]