The latest series of Dragon’s Den has just come to an end. Amazingly, it was the sixth series of the programme, and aside from a few changes in the dragon lineup, it hasn’t changed at all. The whole thing is produced to a perfect formula, where the pacing, the setting, and even the camera angles [...]
Are we seeing the beginnings of a backlash against the copyright and usage rights on publicly owned (or quasi-publicly owned) online image archives? Public.resource.org has written to the [American] Smithsonian Institute about their claimed copyright ownership of images. Dan Lockton points out the English Heritage website’s cynical disabling of the right click function, using javascript. [...]
With all the fuss about the general rubbishness of the new 2012 Olympic logo, I thought I’d point out a lesser-discussed issue about the logo. As eyedropper has pointed out, almost every newspaper, and the BBC News website, have run ‘send us you alternative design’ competitions. Which has been interesting from a people-being-creative, ‘user generated [...]
When a Spanish bar decided to get around the paying of music licensing fees by playing only Creative Commons licensed music, the Spanish collecting society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) tried to sue. Last month, the court ruled in favour of the bar, recognising for the first time that it’s possible to use [...]
I love this idea – the Arts Council England is funding two artist placements at the BBC, one of whom will be working with Creative Archive licensed material, releasing their work back into the wild, with the other having more unrestricted access to BBC archive footage, releasing their works internally to the BBC only. I [...]