Tag: intellectual-property
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Heavy.com (2026 edit: the original link is dead so here’s a link to the internet archive version) has illustrated the uncanny similarities between 2000AD strip Firekind (1993) and Jim Cameron’s Avatar (apparently in development since 1995). I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for Avatar I did notice the similarities, but…
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I’ve just updated Prawn Free Lembit with Mr Opik’s latest column from the Daily Sport and it has put me in a bit of a quandary. You see, by posting that column, I’m breaching copyright. I’m a pretty good boy when it comes to copyright violation generally – unusually for my generation even where music…
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The Open Rights Group have produced this fab video. Take five minutes to watch and then lobby your MEPs: See also: www.soundcopyright.eu
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I’ve spent days resisting blogging this wish because, quite frankly, I don’t think it will happen. But it certainly is a dearest wish, so it makes the cut. What I mean by “money for nothing” is the tendency of the late 20th and early 21st century to look at everything as if it were capital…
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I’ve only just spotted this, and feel a bit foolish for not noticing it earlier, but have you noticed that the new Lib Dem website is Creative Commons? I’ve just checked and neither Labour nor the Conservatives have gone down this route. The Green Party has an inconsistent policy: a Google search shows that a…