Wired just posted about yet another DOJ appointment having come straight from the RIAA legal halls. That’s FIVE RIAA appointments. I am struggling – incredibly hard – to reconcile this trend in DOJ appointments with an administration that paints itself as forward-thinking and technically savvy. The current U.S. copyright and IP laws are subsidizing broken […]
whitehouse.gov Goes Creative Commons
While it’s neither the most important nor the most controversial moment of today, I did feel compelled to post about whitehouse.gov incorporating a Creative Commons license for the content on the website. This is meaningful in many ways, but I’m encouraged that copyright, intellectual laws, and creative efforts by our society will improve over the […]