Category Archives: Copyright & IP

Coventry University Events

By take21 | Published: September 25, 2008

Coventry Conversations A series of 12 lectures by visiting speakers from the contemporary media world. Foreign correspondent, sports writer, drama writer, editor, investigative journalist, games developer, screen writer, film director … leading figures share their experience. Starting on 25th September talks take place on Thursday lunchtimes. Talks are free and open to the public. Read […]

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Google G1

By take21 | Published: September 22, 2008

Google G1 mobile phone launches. Piece by the Guardian’s Richard Wray gives the background. Open Handset Alliance vs Apple iPhone and Nokia’s newly-free Symbian. And “For many people in the developing world, the only way they are likely to get on the web, for the foreseeable future, is through a mobile device. A quarter of […]

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Filesharing prosecutions

By take21 | Published: September 12, 2008

“Cleveland police have charged Alan Ellis, the former administrator of the defunct BitTorrent tracker site OiNK.cd, with conspiracy to defraud the record industry. Ellis, a 25-year-old IT worker, will face magistrates at a committal hearing on 24 September, a police spokeswoman said today. Five individuals who were arrested in June for uploading music torrents to […]

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The Pirate’s Dilemma

By take21 | Published: September 12, 2008

Matt Mason The Pirate’s Dilemma: How hackers, punk capitalists and graffiti millionaires are remixing our culture and changing our world. Talk at the Royal Society of Arts. Wide-ranging introduction to the view that piracy may have benefits for society and promote innovation. History of pirate radio, Hollywood’s early history of patent evasion, NIke, brands. Video: […]

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Openness in Higher Education

By take21 | Published: September 3, 2008

Presentation on Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects David Wiley, Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. This  36 minute presentation discusses how tags, blogs, RSS and Google have usurped much of the earlier work  done with repositories. Much of the case he makes about the challenges […]

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Google Chrome

By take21 | Published: September 2, 2008

Google has launched a browser: Google Chrome. Nice documentation. It’s a browser, but it is also a platform for web applications. Uses Webkit (like Safari). Open Source. Maybe you would like to write a blog entry about it. Everyone else will. Update: BBC coverage with a video clip in which Google’s Jessica Powell demonstrates the […]

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Simson to Pandora ‘put ads in the stream’

By take21 | Published: August 21, 2008

Interview with John Simson, head of SoundExchange, the US organisation responsible for collecting royalties for music performed via non-terrestrial radio (web, satellite) and distributing those royalties to artists. Context: in the US terrestrial radio broadcasters over AM and FM pay nothing in performance royalties (unlike the UK). Satellite radio stations XM and Sirius pay a […]

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CDs down, downloads up

By take21 | Published: August 18, 2008

“The amount of money that songwriters received from sales of CDs fell by 15 per cent in the first half of this year, according to figures to be published this week by the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which collects royalties for songwriters and composers.” Declining CD sales mean songwriters will earn more from performance rights – playback […]

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Endgame in sight

By take21 | Published: August 18, 2008

SoundExchange vs internet radio “We’re approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” says Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora “We’re funded by venture capital,” he said. “They’re not going to chase a company whose business model has been broken. So if it doesn’t feel like its headed towards a solution, we’re done.” The article also provides a […]

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Launchpad chicken: Jean Louis Gassée on Mobile Me

By take21 | Published: August 15, 2008

Insight from Jean Louis Gassée.  “Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. So goes one of the many proverbs of our computer lore. As Apple found out last month with the MobileMe launch misfires, the lofty promise of “Exchange for the rest of us” translated into a user experience that was neither simple […]

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