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Dec 10, 2008
TuneCore Looks to Monetize Website Traffic for Artists
At the Digital Freedom Campaign, we love TuneCore (totally platonic love, but love nonetheless). If you aren't familiar with the company, a short description of their current model, as described by Ars Technica, goes like this: "TuneCore is best known for its fee-based …
Dec 6, 2008
Change.gov Content Now Under Creative Commons License
By Richard Esguerra
Electronic Frontier Foundation
In the last few days, President-elect Obama's transition team took a significant stride towards a more open government by licensing the content of Change.gov under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Using that …
Dec 5, 2008
Do 20 Million HDTV's Matter?
By Jef Pearlman
Public Knowledge
Remember Selectable Output Control? It's the issue where the MPAA petitioned the FCC for the right to turn off any and all of the outputs on your cable box -- especially those pesky high definition analog connections -- if they move up the …
Nov 25, 2008
Can a Movie Be Highly Pirated and Still Top the Box Office?
The answer appears to be yes. In a great Techdirt article by Mike Masnick, it is revealed that The Dark Knight was simultaneously the highest grossing and most pirated film of the year. But how is this possible? After all, the movie industry is claiming that the reason …
Nov 21, 2008
The Knights who say "Free"
It's a great day for Python fans -- Monty Python has posted vast collection of best content on their own YouTube channel. This simultaneously undercuts unauthorized sites and drives traffic to the Python site where fans can by books, cds, t-shirts etc. The strategy of …