Monday, February 17, 2003

Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital Artworks. Boundary crossing has suddenly emerged as a hot topic in new-media circles, particularly in the world of art. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times: Business] 4:35:16 AM

	Sunday, January 19, 2003

Researchers translate DNA code as music. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] "Imagine the human genome as music. Unravel DNA's double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys." 5:05:41 AM

	Thursday, January 16, 2003

Libraries Preserving Our Past. "The New York Public Library's Image Gate is currently in Beta. However 80,000 images so far out of 600,000 isn't too shabby. Of remarkable interest are the collections (also some here) they have put up so far for your browsing pleasure. Anna Atkins cyanotypes are beautiful, and the Art of the Cigarette Card is joyously quirky. Be sure to check back in 2004 when its all done."[MetaFilter] Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933 "The Library of Congress in collaboration with the Chicago Historical Society has added to their American Memory Web site over 55,000 images of urban life taken between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News. Search by keyword or browse by subject." [What's GNU] [The Shifted Librarian] 8:38:56 AM

	Tuesday, January 7, 2003

An Exhibition That Borrows Brazenly. The exhibition "Illegal Art" (and its accompanying CD and Web site) asserts that American copyright laws are overly restrictive and outdated. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Business] 4:40:26 AM

	Sunday, January 5, 2003

Studios Using Digital Armor. Media executives are locking up products with the same types of digital tools that people have used to get the products free. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 6:59:05 AM

	Tuesday, December 24, 2002

on the permanence of cc licenses. There's a wonderfully careful analysis of various CC issues at burningbird. Thank you. One point to clarify, however. CC licenses are, at this moment, at least, permanent, in the sense that the term is as long as copyright runs (and we'll see whether that's permanent or not soon enough). That issue was a tough one for us (I, of course, favor "limited terms"), and we're eager for feedback on that issue. But just because you can't revoke a particular license doesn't mean you can't revoke the offer. If, for example, you offer content under a CC license for a month, and then change your mind, you can stop offering the content under that license. Anyone who accepted your offer while it was valid, of course, has a deal. But no one after you withdraw the offer can accept anymore. Finally, my blog is licensed in the xml. Button coming soon. [source: Lessig Blog] complex law, simple code. I missed a string of comments about CC licenses and software. Shelley raises some great questions. Here's the problem. We're trying to develop tools to enable people to express their preferences as simply as possible. We can't do much to make the underlying law simple. I've tried to answer some of the questions in the extended entry. But I'm afraid Shelley will be right again: The answers will only raise more questions. There's lots here to work out, and we can't do all the working out. [source: Lessig Blog] Creative Commons License. Over the weekend, I added a Creative Commons license to this weblog, removing the earlier copyright notice with "all rights reserved". I chose the Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 license -- as have Denise Howell and Jon Udell, among others. Denise's logic made particular sense and stimulated me to take action. [Tnx: Dave Winer's Scripting News for the original pointer to Denise's work] [source: Scott Loftesness] 5:34:18 AM

	Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Reel lives. Film critic David Thomson talks about his masterly survey of movie people -- who's in, who's out and just what makes a star different from the rest of us. [Salon.com] 6:19:34 AM

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