Laurence emailed me a few weeks ago to let me know that Arefatica is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Maisonneuve. I knew it was going to be published, but had forgotten all about it. It's a nice piece. It starts off like this: "Having spent years working in communications for international development projects, Christine Prefontaine had long suspected that there was more to be gained than lost from sharing ideas, or even from having them stolen."
Monday, June 29, 2009
The result has been an unprecedented outpouring of creative works. As of early June, for instance, more than 3.6 billion photographs had been uploaded to Flickr alone. As the best of those works are now making their way into the broader cultural landscape, they're breaking mass media's stranglehold on the ownership of meaningful content.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Created as a side project by Borys Musielak and Adam Zielinski, two Polish movie addicts — who just happen to be Python programmers — Filmaster is an elegant networking site for film aficionados. It's free to join and members can run their own blog, discuss and rate movies, and receive personalized recommendations.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Led by the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. And they want you to steal their work.
Friday, May 29, 2009
The nightmarish vision of digital lock up has not materialised, but significant problems exist and practical solutions are required. The evidence shows that libraries, professors, students, and researchers — users who are allowed by British law to access and copy content — are stymied by DRM. These copyright exceptions are connected to core freedoms.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Intellectual property made sense and used to work rather well when conditions of production favored it. Now they don't. If it's simple to copy just one single movie, some gray area of fair use can be tolerated. If it becomes easy to copy a million movies with one single button-push, this vast economic superstructure is reduced to rags.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Wanting to make beautiful but simple newspapers from local blogs. (Well, from the ones who are kind enough to contribute to the commons by publishing open.) They'd be well-designed and printed on cheap newsprint. There would be a nice contradiction between the simple, elegant layout and the flimsy, disposable paper.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A vibrant public domain is essential for a healthy society, and is essential for innovation — which I think can also be expressed as: “finding solutions to problems.” Having a wide and vibrant public domain — of ideas, texts, learning, science, open source code, audio recordings, art, etc. — means that as we face problems of one kind or another, we have at our disposal a whole host of tools and information and building blocks that will help us find solutions.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. Visit his website. Read more on Wikipedia. Download (PDF) Benkler’s seminal paper, “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” in the Yale Law Journal, 369:1-79, 2002.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Artefatica's first project is a collaboration with Montreal artist Emily-Rose Michaud. We're producing a book, website, and some wonderful swag to celebrate Emily's work in the Maguire Meadow, document the many community uses of this wild urban space, and provide activists and the city with materials and ideas as they plan its future.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
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