Enterprise Abstraction

Library puppet videos - Weasel and Goose

Despite my usual rule against posting about things that Richard Akerman has already blogged, I feel it's required that I pay homage to the creativity and comedy of Llord Llama (or is it King Goose?) who provides a collection of amusing and silly puppet-based videos - mostly about libraries, copyright, publishers and such.  Awesome.

The one about copyright vs publisher vs librarians is particularly poignant.

Larry Lessig - TED talk on copyright and the law

At TED Larry Lessig gave an interesting talk about the issues of pre-digital copyright law, and makes a case for creative freedom through a common sense approach. 

- Via Boing Boing.

The captain is dead

Slashdot reports that Captain Copyright is dead.  Gratz to the Canadian Library Association for their success in curtailing this initiative.  In my mind it goes to prove that library associations and library's do have a role in the protection of our rights and heritage, and do serve a fundamental public good.

In other copyright related news, the Canadian Private Copyright Collective is asking for yet another levy, this time on portable music players as well as on memory cards.  Fine... as long as the levy implies that we can copy content around freely... I'm not entirely against it.  Well, not really... but I'd probably live with it.

If it means that I have to pay a levy and I'm still not supposed to copy music and videos around, then I have a problem.