Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

Duplicate Content And The Problogger Group Writing Project

I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention the SEO consequences of duplicating the entire list from Darren Rowse’s Group Writing Project.
It’s never a good idea to duplicate someone else’s content on your own blog. You now have duplicate content issues and can very easily send your page into the Google supplemental index, [...]

Applying The 80-20 Rule To Your Songwriting

I’m finding more and more that what stops songwriters from finishing songs isn’t a lack of good ideas but a misdirection of songwriting focus. Based on the comments I receive, musicians are spending more time on tasks that do little to move the song closer to completion.
For example, if you just spent 15 minutes on [...]

Ultimate-Guitar.com: The Last Stand

The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days. What does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website.
Let’s give our support to Ultimate Guitar! It’s not ethical to exercise [...]

Integral Copyright

Copyright (from Wikipedia):
It appears publishers, rather than authors, were the first to seek restrictions on copying printed works. Given that publishers now obtain the copyright from the authors as a condition of mass reproduction of a work, one of the criticisms of the current system is that it benefits publishers more than it does authors. [...]

Lawrence Lessig On Indie Fairness

Lawrence Lessig professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He’s leading the conversation about the challenges of intellectual property and copyright in the digital age. From his blog:
The band Beatnik Turtle has released an “Indie Band Survival Guide” (free, as in CC). They’ve also now practiced [...]

Creative Commons Victory

I was talking to my roommate about starting a blog yesterday and the subject of copyright came up. I told him about the Creative Commons license. As a serendipitous example of morphogenetic fields, these posts showed up in my newsreader: A CC First and Creative Commons has teeth.
Creative Commons Weblog: The first known court decision [...]

Copyright Rant

Great Copyright rant from The Head Lemur:
Protecting stuff comes from fear. Believing that someone is out to take it, raises the question of what led you to the conclusion that whatever it is has such a potential for destroying your way of life? And since you have reached this conclusion, where did the idea come [...]

Lessig: Is Google Print Fair Use?

Lessig: Is Google Print Fair Use?:
Larry Lessig has posted a video of a presentation on whether Google Book Search (AKA Google Print) is protected by Fair Use. His conclusion: Yup. But how he gets there is fascinating and informative. Why wouldn’t you want to hear one of the nation’s top law professors clearly addressing [...]

Rock and Roll is Here to Pay

The average consumer is not motivated by arguments about copyright infringement, nor should they be…
Copyright has never been simply an exclusive contract to exploit the fruits of one’s creativity, but rather a balancing act, weighing the legal protection of intellectual property against the public rights of access to information and freedom of expression. And the [...]