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CCCP — Creative Commons and Collecting society Pilot

Creative Commons Netherlands and Buma/Stemra, the collecting society for music authors (composers, textwriters) and music publishers in the Netherlands start a groundbreaking pilot project: music authors will be able to combine the more flexible licensing models of Creative Commons licences with membership of Buma/Stemra. Details will be presented on 23 August 2007 at Pakhuis de […]

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A Major European Commission survey…

Reuters reports: Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone - including their parents - is doing it, according to a major European Commission survey. Other excuses included: the download is for personal and private purposes; the Web sites presumably remunerate the […]

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Do Texts Grow on iPhones?

At least two services are out there that offer books and novels to read on Apple’s iPhone. Readdle.com offers the upload of 8 different formats, doc, txt and pdf among them, and a library of “iPhone-optimized classical books by O.Henry, Charles Dickens, Shakespear, Conan Doyle and others”. textoniphone.com “can only be viewed using the iPhone. […]

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