By @edent · copyright DMCA firefox google · 8 comments · 300 words · read ~484 times.
There's a law in the USA called the DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Amongst its myriad provisions is the ability for copyright holders to send takedown notices to service providers. If someone has ripped off your content, you can send them a legal letter saying "take that down". People often send DMCA requests to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · copyright drm · 38 comments · 800 words · read ~4,964 times.
During the middle of the 20th Century, the UK's Royal Air Force took thousands of photographs of the country from above. Think of it like a primitive Google Earth. Those photographs are "Crown Copyright". For photographs created before 1st June 1957, the copyright expires after 50 years. Recently, the organisation "Historic England" started sharing high-resolution […]
Continue reading →By @edent · blockchain copyright nft · 750 words · read ~246 times.
Way back in the early days of the Social Web, the writer Cory Doctorow invented Whuffie. Think of it as a way to formalise "upvotes" and "likes" on social media. Whuffie, a form of digital social reputation, replaces money and is a constantly updated rating that measures how much esteem and respect other people have […]
Continue reading →By @edent · copyright isp virgin · 1 comment · 750 words · read ~900 times.
My current ISP is Virgin Media. They get a lot of stick for being a bit useless - but I can't fault the speed of my domestic connection. They recently upgraded me for free to 152Mbps downsteam (and a less impressive 12Mbps up). As part of this upgrade, they sent me an email stating: now […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 3d 3d printing art copyright · 4 comments · 650 words · read ~929 times.
I was wandering round The Henry Moore Foundation last Friday - thanks to the delightful wedding of my good friends Mike and Nikki. Looking at the abstract statues and carvings, I was struck not only by their beauty, but by how easy they would be to reproduce with a 3D printer. Ok - ok! I'm […]
Continue reading →By @edent · copyright emoticons shakespeare shkspr · 3 comments · 300 words · read ~1,892 times.
Rob Pensalfini has written a delightful blog in which he accuses (or perhaps credits) Shakespeare with inventing the emoticon. He claims that this is within A Winter's Tail, Act I, Scene ii - in the first folio. So, I turned to the First Folio viewer which allows people to see scans of the first printing […]
Continue reading →By @edent · copyright legal sky sky news twitter YouTube · 22 comments · 1,050 words · read ~7,470 times.
UPDATE! I have reached a settlement with Sky. Update: 16 March, 2011. They have finally paid up! tl;dr Sky News stole my copyrighted work and distributed it without credit or payment. I asked them to pay £1,500. They refused. Full Story During the recent O2 brouhaha I recorded a video showing how the issue could […]
Continue reading →By @edent · copyright deviceatlas lawyers openddr wurfl · 63 comments · 1,200 words · read ~8,301 times.
When a phone's web browser visits your site, how can you tell what capabilities that phone has? How can you work out its screensize, whether it can play mp3s, or know if it supports a particular bit of JavaScript? It ought to be possible using a mixture of UAProf, accept headers, and media queries. But […]
Continue reading →By @edent · contacts copyright google images lorem ipsum usability · 1 comment · 550 words · read ~317 times.
Google has rightly received praise for its reworked "Contacts" functionality. But there is still a rather glaring error. One of the things I love to do is add images to my contacts. It gives me a visual cue when I'm scrolling through looking for a person, it prompts my memory when I see the face […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 3strikes copyright digital britain digitalbritain drm government politics ThreeStrikes · 1 comment · 2,550 words
Dear Sir, This is my response to your consultation "Consultation on Legislation to Address Illicit P2P File-Sharing". I believe that the paper "GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED P2P FILE-SHARING LEGISLATION" is dangerously flawed. In this response, I shall outline four general areas of concern. Practical, Philosophical, Technical and Cultural. I also will provide a series […]
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