Subcontinent Copyright Wars (Ernest Miller):
Fascinating article on the BBC regarding the copyright wars between India and Pakistan (How piracy is entrenched in Pakistan). Turns out that Pakistan is cracking down on copyright infringement of Western movies, but not on movies from India.
[Via Hit and Run and Copyfight.]
Freedom to Asterisk. Nettement trop complexe/dispendieux/alambiqué pour mes besoins, mais ca ouvre les yeux sur plein de possibilités.
Legal tips for bloggers: Audio advice from experts, dans le cadre de la conférence Blogher (dans le sens de…). Je me demande si ca intéresserait pas ma maman (la conférence, pas les conseils juridiques).
Qu’est-ce qu’on a ici? Meeting Reports Made Publicly Available? Sympa…
[Via ITU-T Newslog.]
Can contracts survive in the grassroots ecosystem?:
Interfaces that are XML-based and schema-backed can lay a kind of contractual foundation for layered extensions.[…]
Formal contracts aren’t just stabilizers, they’re enablers. If documents were predictably structured, for example, we could visualize their change histories in even more compelling ways.[…]
Contracts are awkward beasts, and they generate a lot of friction. Of course, some friction is a good and necessary thing, but if we can’t make contracts easier to use, the grassroots ecosystem will continue to route around them. And that’s not in anyone’s best interest.[…]
More like this in Recipes for remixers
This column suggests making the implied contract between a Web application and its human or robotic user into something more explicit.
Quite frankly, I don’t yet see the legal subject matter. But I’ll keep reading.
Je ne sais pas vraiment ce que sont les microformats (il y a une explication ici), mais il y a un format qui s’appele rel="license"…
C’est vrai que c’est particulièrement damnant d’essayer de trouver sous quels termes sont offerts certaines oeuvres (en supposant que la page web moyenne soit minimalement originale et expressive).