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Copyright Law in Rhyming Form

Monday, July 10, 2006

Via BoingBoing comes all of Title 17 of the United States Code, which encapsulates all of American copyright law, in short quartains with ABAB rhyming scheme. On 17 USC 107 (fair use):
Despite all of these rights
All people can reproduce
To report, criticise, or teach
Because that is fair use
Almost as interesting as the verse is the copyright [...]

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YouTube's Pretty Girls Make Graves Video Contest & Music Licensing in Film

Friday, March 31, 2006

The popular video website YouTube is hosting a "Make Our Video" contest for the Seattle indie rock band Pretty Girls Make Graves in order to promote the band's upcoming album Élan Vital. Entrants are directed to download the album's first track, The Nocturnal House, and create a music video based on it. While the grand [...]

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New Favicon

Friday, December 30, 2005

Unlike the previous favicon, in which I attempted to create a M by hand, this new favicon looks more polished. Using the popular Linux image software program The Gimp, I inserted a Times New Roman 'M' into a 64×64 image, and then downsized it into the 16×16 icon you see before you.

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Happy Birthday MP3 for Free Culture

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

In April, the Free Culture movement celebrated its one year anniversary. What is Free Culture, you ask? It is a college-based movement which wants to ensure that humanity's traditional values of innovation and creativity are not stifled. From their manifesto:
The freedom to build upon the past is necessary for creativity and innovation to thrive. We [...]

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