The innovative Creative Commons is taking their flexible copyright to the world: A customisable form of copyright license will soon be available internationally through the Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation based in the US. The organisation already offers US artists a way build their own copyright agreement. Each custom-made license …

Being that I’m all cool and whatnot, I have been asked to help judge the Song Remix category of the Webgeek Olympics: What: You remix a song. When: The song in question will be posted on this page at 8:00 AM GMT, Saturday May 10 2003. How: Ping the “EventGo” …

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein is deeply concerned with proposed further media deregulation, and well he should be: FCC Chairman Michael Powell has vowed to overhaul these rules by June 2. A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators recently asked him to hold off on any changes until the FCC discloses …

Another incisive commentary from Dave Pell, this one on the grim state of Democratic thinking, and he’s a Democrat: The tsunami from the right has been so complete in recent years that it almost seems as if they are operating in a vacuum. Politically, the Republicans have control of the …

Ongoing Verizon-RIAA dispute – U.S. District Court Judge John Bates said Verizon must reveal the names of the two alleged copyright infringers within two weeks: Bates originally ordered Verizon to reveal the customers’ names in January, but Verizon had argued that their identities should be protected as it pursues an …

Phillip Winn just related an article about the French rethinking their anti-war position in light of dancing Iraqis kissing pictures of George Bush and doing the shoe-whack on effigies of Saddam. I’ve held out hope for the Frenchies all along, largely because they have such fine women, food and wine. …

The Dixie Chicks seem to be weathering the negative publicity from their anti-Bush/war statements rather well. Maybe we’ve entered a new era of show biz negative advertising campaigns, as I mentioned earlier today in relationship to Madonna. They’ve done wonders for us here, too, that’s for sure (see below). The …

What is the first rule of show biz? Protect your face – maybe that’s why they call him Thicke: “Growing Pains” TV dad Alan Thicke received 30 stitches and lost five teeth after he was struck by a puck while practicing for a celebrity fund-raising hockey game, his spokesman said …

I am root root rooting for 321 Studios in their court challenge to the Hollywood studios over its DVD-copying technology. As we have said here ad nauseum, all citizens have a right to make a back up copy of their own DVDs and music CDs. The DMCA denies citizens this …

Our estimable cornfed pal David Hogberg (and prize winning poker player) points to yet another anti-war contest winner – this one is a gambler: Binion’s Horseshoe World Series of Poker Pot-limit Hold’em $1,500 buy-in 212 Entrants $295,740 Prize Pool “It was a roller-coaster,” was how Prahlad Friedman described the sixth …