Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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Too Much Joy» Blog Archive » My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
To sum up: the music industry treats its artists like it treats its customers: like shit. This is why I don't feel even a little twinge of remorse for pirating music. The sooner these asshat scumbags go out of business the better.
Why I (A/L)GPL
Well said.
GIRL TALK - FEED THE ANIMALS - ILLEGAL ART
Great mashup album. Donate some money for the inevitable DMCA suit.
A “Test Suite” of Fair Use Examples for Service Providers and Content Owners
Though the EFF prepared this “test suite” as part of the Youtube copyright debate, it's actually a wonderful summary of some of the best of “remix culture.”
Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center
Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.
Dare to share | lawrence.com
A nice story about file-sharing culture here in Lawrence, with a cameo by Yours Truely.
lj19: Derivative Works
The best summary of what constitutes a “derivative work” in open source. It's more complex than it needs to be :(