Copyright and Cultural Heritage: “About Jenga” (Part 1)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott [Many readers may have been surprised to learn in my recent interview with Henk Rogers that the rights to Tetris were originally owned by the Russian Ministry of Software and that it was no easy task for Rogers to obtain them. But of course all games, whether high-tech, low-tech or

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Deal Radar 2008: ImageSpan

The world of copyrights and content licensing is a mess on the web. Plagiarism runs amok. People tend to be very cavalier about stealing content. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we will look at a company that attempts to put some structure around the evidently unmanageable content licensing and monetization issue.

Deal Radar 2008: Pandora

Pandora Media, based in Oakland, California, is an Internet radio web site. Founded by Tim Westergren in 2000, it was formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project, a collection of songs that have been analyzed by trained musicians.

Cutting and Pasting of America!

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Boy were our parents wrong. They said “Don’t use the calculator,” feeling it’ll hurt our multiplication abilities. Shit – look at how much we (mostly people who know better) use the Net to cheat. It’s uncanny. And that burns me up. I just spent a full two weeks at my

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