An anonymous copyright owner lays claim on Crank Dat ROFLCon! Soulja Boy, you didn’t back down from Ice-T. Don’t let these clowns play you!
Archive for the ‘freeculture’ Category
Crank Dat ROFLCon taken down from YouTube!
November 24th, 2008 crankdat, dance, dmca, freeculture, hiphop, musicvideo, remix, souljaboy, takedown, todomundo, youtube | No Comments »Cops boast about illegal activity on their homepage! Just like the kids!
October 1st, 2008 cops, dj, drama, freeculture, hiphop, mixtapes, raid, riaa, todomundo | No Comments »Searching for photos of mixtape studios, I was surprised to find the following image on the Morrow County Police Department homepage:
The City of Morrow Police Department has partnered with the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office and assembled a joint task force geared at proactively combating narcotics and vice related crime in the City of Morrow and […]
Anigif response to the subpoena of YouTube viewership records
July 3rd, 2008 anigif, freeculture, freedom, freespeech, google, lawsuit, liberty, privacy, snitching, stopsnitching, viacom, youtube | No Comments »Mad people have been fwd’ing articles about the subpoena of YouTube users’ viewing records today.
“Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled […]
Cut, copy, paste icons vector traced
March 9th, 2008 copy, cut, design, freeculture, graphics, hci, paste, ui, vector | 3 Comments »I’ve been meaning to make vector versions of the cut, copy, and paste icons for months. Finally sat down to do it with the Free Culture board as we brainstormed t-shirt ideas this afternoon.
cutcopypaste.ai
That file is from Illustrator CS2. If you need another (more free) format, let me know. I’ll do my best to provide […]
Comcast pays people to bogart my seat at FCC hearing.
February 26th, 2008 berkman, comcast, fcc, freeculture, freedom, internet, isp, law, netneutrality, network, policy, verizon | No Comments »I left lab early yesterday and rushed over to Harvard Law School to attend the FCC hearing. Unfortunately, I arrived to find a hallway full of angry people and a police officer blocking the stairway. Apparently, Comcast offered its local employees a full day’s pay to take up seats in the courtroom. Totally sweet deal […]
Starting the fire: YouTube audio takedowns
December 21st, 2007 audio, dmca, freeculture, notice, takedown, todomundo, video, youtube | 2 Comments »Oh, dear. Check out the notice on this Billy Joel fanvid:
merrickart (1 month ago)
Best video of this song I’ve seen! Even better than Billy Joel’s himself.
Perhaps even more troubling is that the poster wasn’t notified of the takedown:
PlaidFox (16 hours ago)
[…]
To YouTube:
I do not appreciate the way I found out that my audio has […]
DJ Pierre: “Once it’s on a record, it’s like shareware!”
September 8th, 2007 acid, djpierre, freeculture, freedom, house, pierre, remixing, shareware, todomundo | 1 Comment »
People like Daft Punk, Armand Van Helden […] have been real creative. You can’t say these people have been … less creative than we were.
People say, “Oh, Pierre. You started Acid. How do you feel about these people doing this and that with it. Taking your sound…”
I’m like, “Whose […]
El Raval street art video
March 21st, 2007 art, barcelona, creativecommons, elraval, españa, freeculture, graffiti, streetart, todomundo, video | No Comments »This video (by feezen freezen) is about El Raval, a barrio de Barcelona with bohemian history and a present-day blend of tradition, gentrification, renewal, decay, and reinvention. The video was constructed from dozens of images permissively licensed on Flickr - including some of my own!
Creative Commons in action! K guay!
