"Copy Me" episode 3: "Early Copyright History"
Alex writes, "It features censorship, hangings, dissent and criticism, a whole bunch of state and church control, angry queens, sad Stationers, and, of course, our terrible culprit: the printing press."
Copy Me: a new critical animation series about copying, culture and copyright
Copy Me is a new webseries (here's its Indiegogo fundraiser) constituting a series of short animations presenting accessible, informative, concise information about copyright, copying and culture. It's marvellously promising, and, as Mike Masnick points out, it's a much-needed addition to a canon that includes such brilliant material as Nina Paley's Copying is Not Theft and Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix. — Read the rest
Code Vault: there's an archival film copy of Github 250 meters underground in Svalbard, down the road from the seeds
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is where the world's largest code repository stashes a copy of itself, deep underground, on hardcopy media set to last 250 years—and probably far longer. Every repo active in December 2020 or graced by more than a handful of stars was included. — Read the rest
The true nature of creativity: pilfering and recombining the work of your forebears (who, in turn, pilfered and recombined)
Alex from Copy Me (previously) writes, "Copying is one of the most essential steps to creativity. And if we don't understand how it works, copyright can easily become detrimental to the very creativity we want to protect. Copy-Me's got a new video about how even the great geniuses copied others and how this practice goes waaaay back to the most famous artists and inventions. — Read the rest
Inside Cuba's massive, weekly, human-curated sneakernet
Most Cubans have terrible access to the Internet — estimates suggest only 5-25% of the populace can regularly get online. The government made it a bit easier in recent years with paid wifi hotspots, but they require dough, and they're super slow. — Read the rest
The myth of the "genius creator" requires that we ignore the people they build on, or insist they don't matter
The wonderful Copy Me project (previously) has revealed the first installment in its new three-part series on The Creativity Delusion, which takes aim at the "myth of genius," which picks a small subsection of creators, scientists and entrepreneurs and declares them to be "original" by ignoring all the work they plundered to create their own and erasing all the creators whose shoulders they stand upon.
Remix Reading remix contest
Tom Chance, the co-organizer of the remarkable Remix Reading event, sez,
— Read the restAfter an extremely successful launch event, we're running a remix competition. Over the next month, we want to see who can create the best remix of a piece of work already on the website.
