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Catching The Tide: Redux
I’ve just spent the last couple of days rescuing one of my old films from dusty neglect. Catching The Tide: Sam Hunts Cook Strait is available to view for free at NZScreen but frankly, the video...
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Steve Jobs on copyright and piracy
“From the earliest days at Apple, I realised that we thrived when we created intellectual property. If people copied or stole our software we’d be out of business. If it weren’t protected there’d be no...
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Creative Commons for Dummies
You might have heard of Creative Commons? It’s been promoted as a pathway to universal enlightenment, freeing up information and creative work for the betterment of mankind. Right? Wrong. The shabby...
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A New Dark Age: Shedding Light on Where the Internet is Taking Us
It’s hard to swallow that the Internet, a wondrous creation replete with promise, far from democratising culture and ushering in a new golden age, is actually doing exactly the opposite. That a kind of...
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DMCA: Denying Monetary Compensation Always | MuseWire
Costa Botes:Dear Bill Clinton, the stain you left on Monica’s blue dress was nothing compared to this mess. Should have taken the rose coloured spectacles off. Originally posted on The Trichordist: Who...
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Another myth about online piracy exploded.
Does piracy act as promotion? Common sense (and real world experience) says NO. Magical unicorn economic theory (the kind they teach at Silicon Valley) says, “sure it does”. Can’t introduce this topic...
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Where Silicon Valley wants us …
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/24/the-new-feudalism-silicon-valley-overlords-advertising-necessary-evil?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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YouTube and you
When I refer to “you”, I presume I am addressing fellow creators – that is folks working in creative industries like music and film, making creative goods that can be traded online in return for...
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My web store at costabotes.co.nz is busted. Has been for months thanks to the site host changing software and not informing me. It’s thrown a giant spanner in the works. Anyone who has tried to...
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