On today's podcast we discuss the (near) end of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, MegaUpload vs. UMG and YouTube, and SOPA. We also have an extended interview with Robert Levine, author of Free Ride, How Digital Parasites are Destroying The Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back.
Listen to Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast here
Creative Commons
Post to TwitterPK In the Know Podcast: Verizon Wins the Lottery and Kai Bachman Interview
October 12, 2011
Today's podcast is brimming with information about Verizon winning the lottery, emerging clarity in digital music, Microsoft's not so great deal to get TV onto your Xbox, an ACTA review, and an interview with Kai Backman of Tinkercad about the future of digital fabrication and getting to 90% digital design literacy.
You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:
Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Project Gutenberg is one of the Internet's great resources--the first "digital library," with thousands of public domain ebooks, and created entirely by volunteers. Its founder, Michael Hart, passed away this week, after founding the project--by typing in a copy of the Declaration of Independence--in 1971. In doing this, Hart invented the ebook, and what became Project Gutenberg release #1 is still available online. Hart's passing is a sad occasion but a good time to reflect on the importance of his life's work.
In today's jam-packed podcast, we discuss the AT&T/T-Mobile merger opposition filings, a new Tennessee law that makes it illegal to share your password, Lady Gaga and the future of digital music sales, Timothy B. Lee's application of Doctored Reviews' principles, and YouTube's announcement that it is embracing Creative Commons licensing and remixing.
You can download the audio directly by clicking here (MP3) or stream it using the player below:
Want to subscribe to our podcast? Click here for the MP3 feed.
The world of 3D printing was in a tizzy last week discussing a DMCA takedown notice received by the website Thingiverse, a website that allows users to share and discuss their 3D printed designs. It was something of a milestone because it was the first DMCA notice received by the site.
For the past several days, we here at Public Knowledge have been sitting back being mildly amused by the dust-up over an ASCAP fundraising letter that sought to demonize Public Knowledge, Creative Commons and EFF as "Copyleft" organizations that want to undermine their "Copyright," and want "music to be free." Now the President of the National Music Publishers Association is getting into the fray, giving a speech about 10 reasons why "enemies" like PK have a "extremist, radical anti-copyright agenda." How very subtle.
Video bloggers VLOG Brothers posted this entry about SpikeTV, a subsidiary of Viacom, violating musician Jonathan Coulton's Creative Commons License for one of his songs (I've included the video blog below). Briefly, Coulton has released a video of his song Flickr under a Creative Commons license allowing noncommercial use and requiring attribution. SpikeTV grabbed the video and played commercials before it and associated with while playing.
preservesthe openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.
Stay Connected, Join our Mailing List