07.21.08
is it protected by copyright?
Don’t know if something is protected by copyright? Check out this handy little sliderule, it may answer your questions.
07.08.08
best practices for fair use of video
Kami Huyse has an easy-to-understand list of best practices for fair use of video. Where did she get it? “Today, the American University’s Center for Social Media released its code of six best practices (pdf) for fair use of online video.”
What are they?
- Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material
- Using copyrighted material for illustration or example
- Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally reproducing, reposting, or quoting in order to memorialize,
- Preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon
- Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of launching a discussion
- Quoting
in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its
meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the elements
ICANN loses its domain name
This is just too funny, especially if you’ve had your domain name mistakenly given or sold to someone else.
Domain names get away temporarily
– Houston Chronicle2
This doesn’t sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.
ICANN’s domain names were restored within 20 minutes. Because many directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer.
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Footnotes
2 = article may expire in a few weeks.
07.06.08
go forth into technology, it’s where the jobs are
According to an article from Yahoo! those tech skills are going to come in handy. “Here’s a hint for high school graduates or college students still majoring in indecision: Put down that guitar or book of poetry and pick up a laptop. Study computer science or engineering, and plan to move to a big city.”
On the one hand, I’m glad that there’s an industry where there are jobs available. On the other, I’m sorry to see the advice being “put down that guitar or book of poetry” in an era where being well-rounded is more important than ever.
Just my opinion.
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