Lucas Gonze just blogged about our endeavours here and brought some very interesting points to light.
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 [...]
Janko Roettgers blogged about this German gem on p2p-blog.com:
German avant-garde musician Johannes Kreidler has composed a song that quotes from 70,200 other musical works in merely 33 seconds. Did I mention he’s an avant-garde musician? In any case, he’s trying to be a good citizen and properly report all of the songs he used to [...]
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 [...]
“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
- Sir Issac Newton
Where we’re at
Throughout history our progress has come by building on the work of those that came before. It’s been taken for granted that ideas will be copied, tinkered with, and improved for the greater good. This approach has [...]