Posts Tagged ‘public-domain’

3 Count: Skype Me

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Skype founders go to court to seek damages
First off today, the founders of Skype, which was purchased by the online auction company eBay in 2005 is now suing its parent company in court for copyright infringement.
According to the suit, when eBay [...]



3 Count: Steady Matey

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday.
1: Pirate Bay acquisition still on track
First off today, there [...]



3 Count: Empire Building

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 17th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday.
1: New Pirate Bay Will Become a Pay Site
First off [...]



3 Count: Round 2

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday.
1: Round 2 in copyright fight
First off today, New Zealand [...]



Why You Should License Your Work

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Articles

As with other things in our day-to-day lives, we all know that licensing our content is something we should do but few actually do it. Here’s a few more reasons why you should.



CC0: Waiving Copyrights

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Articles, News

A new tool by Creative Commons seeks to make it easier for copyright holders to waive all of their copyright and copyright-related interests in a work…



The 3 Biggest Kludges of Copyright Law

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Articles

As we showed yesterday, confusion in copyright law is both understandable and expected. But why is there so many problems? Much of the reason can be traced back to these three issues.



Copyright News Links – 01-03-09

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Articles, Linkblog

It was a slow week for copyright news but an important one nonetheless, with historical and culturally important works entering the public domain and a new lawsuit that can have a major impact on the Web.



Simple Copyright Slider

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

A new tool created by the American Library Association helps to break down when a work is protected by copyright and when it has slipped into the public domain.



Orphan Works Redux

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Orphan Works

The orphan works bill, killed nearly two years ago after a protest from artists, seems prepared to make a reappearance sometime in the coming days or weeks. Learn what you need to be prepared here.