Topic “Copyleft Licensing”

Reaction to "RiP!: A Remix Manifesto"

Submitted by brad on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 09:55

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto" is a 2008 open source documentary directed by Brett Gaylor. It was developed collaboratively online at Open Source Cinema, and Gaylor has left it on the Open Source Cinema site and encouraged others to remix it.

The film, running about 80 minutes, is framed primarily around the work of Girl Talk, a remix musician who has become one of several major symbols of the remix/copyright reform movement. Lawrence Lessig chips in as well, giving the framing some intellectual heft, and Cory Doctorow and a handful of others drop in from time to time.

"The Public Domain" review at gnovis

Submitted by brad on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 01:25

I just published a review of "The Public Domain", by James Boyle over at gnovis.

If you're familiar with the work of Lawrence Lessig, you'll recognize the formula James Boyle follows in his latest book, "The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind". It goes something like this: Read More

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From Coding to Community: Iteration, Abstraction & Open Source Software Development is a self-published book by Brad Weikel, adapted from his Masters thesis of the same name. This book is an exploration of iteration and abstraction in the practices of programming, as these concepts relate to the politics and production of FOSS projects. Iteration, in this context, refers to the writing of software through incremental changes, leaving it ever subject to further modifications. Abstraction, on the other hand, refers to the use of interfaces to hide complexity, thereby enabling new relations between code and people. (Read More)