Every time I buy music from amazon in mp3 format, I’m absolutely amazed at how well it works. I’m not just talking about the no-drm mp3 stuff, that’s only half of the equation. What’s the other half? Convenience. Amazon has a download utility for their digital music sales. I was amazed the first time I tried . . . → Read More: It’s the simple things
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A friend of mine sent me a message telling me about the music of “Girl Talk“, a DJ from Pittsburgh. I’m not such a huge fan of this type of music (or at least I didn’t use to be), but I’m starting to discover interesting stuff around that I actually like. Girl Talk samples popular music . . . → Read More: The 6 months music challenge 2: Girl Talk I’m a strong supporter of free and open source software. To be honest, I’m a supporter of free and open source anything really. That’s why I contribute to wikitravel (sporadically, but still), why I started wikiscuba (well, still trying to make it take off, really), openstreetmap and anything I can get my hands on that suits . . . → Read More: The 6 months music challenge, Issue 1: Hipster, Please! Compilations I’ve just seen this (new?) ad for the discovery channel, and I think it rocks! People don’t really watch advertising anymore. With all the (illegal) downloads, the Tivos and DVRs, there’s no reason for people to watch advertisement. In light of this, I’ve often said that businesses should start to make art-advertisement (maybe I should call it . . . → Read More: The Discovery Channel Artvertisement I was on vacation in Québec for 3 weeks over the holiday period. I took some of that time to go back to my home town of Rouyn-Noranda and visit friends I hadn’t seen in a while and introduce them to my fiancée. One of these people is a photographer I worked with about 8-9 years ago. She has her own photography business and has recently had to deal with some competition copying her style. What I found interesting through our short discussion was that whe now sells away the rights to the images with the contract. What does that mean? Well, you hire her for a photo shoot. She comes over/has you in the studio, takes all the images she needs, prints whatever you’ve ordered and calls you back to pick up your order. You then walk awway with whatever prints you’ve ordered and a CD of high resolution images you can print off as you like and use as you like with her blessings. Her competition doesn’t offer that. My first question (which is probably what everybody who’s interested in photography asks) was:
Her answer was interesting. Basically, yes, one ends up making less money on some contracts. With wedding contracts, people usually want a lot of prints so you lose some money on that. With a lot of other contracts (I’m guessing stuff like commercial contracts, taking portraits of all the employees), where the client isn’t interested in getting 12 million extra sets of prints, you don’t lose that much money. If anyone wants to go to Washington on monday, there’s a half-day meeting on “Copyright and the University: An . . . → Read More: Conference at George Washington University [I know I'd promised this post would be about the great idea I have and which I've been dangling around without really being descriptive, but as far as I can see, this has just come out and I need to talk about it.] So the wikimedia foundation just announced a deal was accepted by everyone that would make the GFDL (the gnu free documentation license) compatible with the creative commons license. Wow, ok, so what does that mean? Two short points. Continue reading Wikipedia licensing will be compatible with creative commons I swear, in my next post, I’ll give all the details I think I can give (that is, all the details which are set in my head) about my “great” idea for the future of scientific communication. In the meantime, I just want to have a little chat about science and copyright. Part of the reason I’m . . . → Read More: Science and copyright |
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