Copyright

""I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet--even BitTorrent--as a distributed method for distributing content. I've...

"Without much fanfare: it seems Gone With The Wind is back in its old spot at Project Gutenberg Australia." Credit the scoop to the alert Branko Collin. No further details available...

What if you want to use an old photograph or essay but can't--because the family of the long-dead copyright owner is impossible to locate for permission? Indications are growing that Congress...

Read FAQ: Does the LT increase demand or just shift it?" and "The economics of variety"--both from the Long Tail blog. LT's author is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, who wrote...

Podcaster John Edwards has promised to "do our best to get to each and every question and answer them on the podcast." I've asked for his position on the Sonny Bono...

The altruists at Microsoft want you to volunteer your time for a Wiki-type editing of the Encarta encyclopedia (sarcasm alert). (Via Many2Many: A group weblog on social software.) The TeleRead take:...

"The government in the United Kingdom is sponsoring an initiative designed to encourage use of open source applications among public agencies. The Open Source Academy will offer a number of resources...

Sony appointed ex-CBSer Howard Stringer, a Hollywood-oriented guy, not a techie, as CEO. And now Sanyo says its new chief executive will be a female journalist named Tomoyo Nonaka....

"My guess is that multimedia texts will continue to soar, while those plain brown wrapper texts by literary luminaries will sell for next to nothing..." - Robert Nagle, commenting on TeleRead's...

<img src="http://www.teleread.com/gorelaptop.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" alt="Third World children with laptops"The Clinton-Gore era was notorious for its anti-Net copyright legislation such as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the DMCA. But guess...