Author Archives: David Gratton

A Remix Manifesto

Anyone seen this movie?
RIP: A Remix Manifesto

ABOUT THE FILM
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
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Looks very interesting and I’d love to see [...]

Posted in Copyright, General Discussion, Media, Technology Innovation

Web Licensing Needs to Be More Granular

<geek alert>
Presently, all the blogs I’ve looked at (I readily concede there are blogs that I have not looked at ) which assign a license to their content do it on a page or global level.

Posted in Events, General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up

Ubiquity Illustrates Impressive Thinking and the Need for Attribution Microformat

The net was a buzz with with Aza Raskin’s post on Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language.

Posted in Events, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, Technology Innovation

The Need for an Attribution Trail

When content is being reused from one source to another, etiquette and ethics would insist that the content creator (the person reusing content) provide clear attribution and links to the original content while obeying the content’s license.
When searching for an example of proper attribution, I had to go no further than Miss 604’s blog, aka [...]

Posted in Ethical Reuse, Events, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa, Technology Innovation

Reusing Content: Derivative Work vs. Modified Work

What constitutes a derivative work?
The US Copyright Office states:

A typical example of a derivative work [..] is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to [...]

Posted in Creative Commons, Ethical Reuse, General Discussion, Licensing & Attribution
PlayTheWeb.org is an ad hoc group of Web professionals who are interested in promoting the idea of "Web Play" through the ethical reuse of content on the Web. We want to report, discuss, and promote Technologies, Techniques, Applications, and Business models that move this idea forward.