Category Archives: Copyright

A Remix Manifesto

By David Gratton on November 20, 2008

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.
www3.nfb.ca

Looks very interesting and I’d love to see [...]

Also posted in General Discussion, Media, Technology Innovation

Using RDFa for Attribution and licensing

By Rob Linton on November 20, 2008

Well…  despite my complaining about RDFa, we have managed to cobble together something fairly easily.  Almost everything we need for the properties is found in the Dublin Core terms namespace.  We’ve taken a stab at writing a vocabulary document to define the extra attribution properties that can help systems track media over the Web.  Those [...]

Also posted in General Discussion

The Long Trail

By Rob Linton on August 26, 2008

Lucas Gonze just blogged about our endeavours here and brought some very interesting points to light.

Also posted in Licensing & Attribution, Media, Microformat and Mark-up
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.