An ad agency reinvented Snow White as "Ho White" in order to sell Jamieson's Raspberry Ale. I'm not immediately sure how Ho White, Smarmy, Filthy and Randy are meant to entice customers towards flavored beer, but the...
opinion by jordan | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 66 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
I have been reading NowPublic for a while - so, like many others I decided that I would get an account and write a bit on what I saw out on the internet - that doesn't make me any better than any other who writes here, in fact nothing does. But I began asking myself questions...
A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded in its endeavor to get a seat in Brussels' European...
opinion by raynevandunem | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 124 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."Francis BaconObviously the good people at Amazon.com follow the golden...
This is in response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton's article on Huffingtonpost.com. This is Michael Lynton, "I'M A GUY WHO DOESN'T SEE ANYTHING GOOD HAVING COME FROM THE INTERNET, PERIOD." At a panel...
Despite being lowest on the list, Canada has made it onto a United States 'priority watch list' Special 301 report on copyright piracy. Copyright watchdogs are saying the list is just bluster, and call into question the lack of reliable and objective analysis with the...
BBC is taking a bold new approach with a new program called R&D TV: the show will be released under a Creative Commons license, so viewers will not only be able to watch the show, but remix and redistribute it...
created by jordan | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 52 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
When I stumbled across Kutiman's incredible Thru-YOU series of music videos last week I was totally and completely blown away. Transfixed, I watched all seven videos in succession — then went back to the beginning...
Each new era brings fresh offerings to the creative marketplace in the form of cultural goods, be it through the medium of music, film, art, the written word or cross-disciplinary genres. Likewise, technology is...
created by bex0r | 34 wks ago 319 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Licensing: working once again to keep creative works out of the public eye. In this case, Google is removing professionally-submitted music videos from its Youtube UK site, having failed to come up with a licensing...
created by jordan | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 399 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins a grand tradition of political leaders calling for stringent intellectual-property laws, and then getting caught for violating those same laws. It's difficult enough to swallow the tortured reasoning behind some of these copyright laws...
created by jordan | 35 wks ago 63 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
This is interesting: "Street demonstrations, netwide campaigns, unfavorable press attention and sustained lobbying have moved the New Zealand government to temporarily suspend its new copyright law, which would...
created by mtippett | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 74 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Indian government plans to recognize the practice of yoga as “traditional knowledge” and patent all yoga postures that were ever mentioned in traditional Indian texts to prevent others from monetizing on what...
created by yuls.source | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 521 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
Day three of the trial started with presentation of the amended charges and ended early again with all sides retiring for pizza! " The lawyers representing all four called on the court for the acquittal of their...
The founders of Pirate Bay, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, have gone on trial in Stockholm, Sweden charged with copyright theft. If convicted, the men could be fined $143,500 and face up to two...