Außenpluralismus
Ruß-Mohl über Medien: Wie wir [den] Außenpluralismus künftig sichern wollen, ist die Gretchenfrage; http://j.mp/d16ati
Tagged: Copyright RSS Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
Gerrit Eicker
Google Book Settlement?
Katz: You can not settle a claim for copyright infringement by authorizing the miscreant to continue; http://j.mp/a4KJOz
Gerrit Eicker
Google Sidewiki
Google launched Google Sidewiki, a tool to comment and annotate web sites and web content anywhere; http://j.mp/1l3WeP
-
Gerrit Eicker
-
Gerrit Eicker
Jarvis: “I see danger. – Google is trying to take interactivity away from the source and centralize it. This isn’t like Disqus, which enables me to add comment functionality on my blog. It takes comments away from my blog and puts them on Google. That sets up Google in channel conflict vs me. It robs my site of much of its value (if the real conversation about WWGD? had occurred on Google instead of at Buzzmachine, how does that help me?). On a practical level, only people who use the Google Toolbar will see the comments left using it and so it bifurcates the conversation and puts some of it behind a hedge. Ethically, this is like other services that tried to frame a source’s content or that tried to add advertising to a site via a browser (see the evil Gator, which lost its fight vs publishers).”
RWW: “The sorting algorithm and Sidewiki’s ability to display notes about the same topic on various sites make Sidewiki somewhat unique. … For some popular sites that haven’t been annotated yet, Google will also pop up a notification that comments exist, but the sidebar will actually be filled with related blog posts, which is another feature that makes Google stand out from the competition in this field.”
VB: “It’s too soon to tell if Sidewiki will be a hit, but it’s a safe bet that the usual bloggerati will jostle for position among the Sidewiki entries for Google’s homepage. Let’s take a look … hmm … Michael Gray … Danny Sullivan … Michael Arrington … I’m guessing Scoble hasn’t checked Techmeme yet this morning.”
Gerrit Eicker
Metaverse Copyright
As Metaverses grow, develop, and evolve into the next 3D Web, copyright is being debated again; http://tr.im/ulEC
Gerrit Eicker
eBooks: Pirates in Sight
Appetite for eBooks has spawned a bumper crop of pirated editions on sites like Scribd and Wattpad; http://tr.im/l6ri
Gerrit Eicker
Google’s Risks
FaberNovel once again published a great overview of Google: this time on its business risks; http://tr.im/hRSO
Gerrit Eicker
YouTube Deletes Copyrighted Music
YouTube started deleting copyrighted music from videos (the audio part only); http://cli.gs/eTQU9U
Gerrit Eicker
Apple Drops DRM
Apple starts selling music without DRM, removing anticopying restrictions on all iTunes songs; http://cli.gs/M3Ma5e
-
Gerrit Eicker
Schonfeld: “But it looks like the labels prevailed in sticking it to consumers on one last point. Anyone who wants to upgrade their entire existing iTunes Library to DRM-free versions of the same songs, can conveniently do so with one click. But it is going to cost you 30 cents a track to do so. That’s right, you have to pay again for songs you already bought. Let’s see, 6 billion songs X 30 cents = $1.8 billion in potential upgrade fees. That’s a music tax, plain and simple. No wonder the music companies finally relented. – It still won’t save them.”
-
Gerrit Eicker
SZ: “Die Aushebelung der Urheberrechte schafft jetzt schon ein Zweiklassensystem mit einem tiefen Graben zwischen Stars und einem kulturellen Prekariat. Die Auswirkungen auf die Zukunft der Kulturen ist schwer abzuschätzen. Sicher, die Kreativität, die digitale Technologien freisetzt, ist nicht zu leugnen. Doch da wird viel schöngeredet. Der beliebte Vergleich zwischen Urheberrechten und Patenten hinkt. Patente lassen sich vermarkten. Tantiemen sind dagegen nur ein kultureller Gesellschaftsvertrag. Der ist nun in Gefahr.“
Gerrit Eicker
Google Chrome‘s EULA (11.1) might be highly questionable regarding the copyright of its users; http://is.gd/2ap0
Gerrit Eicker
Cutts: “I knew that Google didn’t want to assert rights on what people did using Google Chrome, so I asked the Chrome team and Google lawyers for their reaction or to clarify (probably several other people pinged them too). Here’s what I heard back from Rebecca Ward, the Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome: ‘In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.’”
ars: “Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company tries to reuse these licenses as much as possible, ‘in order to keep things simple for our users.’ Ward admits that sometimes “this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product” and says that Google is ‘working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.’”
Macworld: “Google said Wednesday it would dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company ‘a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through’ the new browser.”
Gerrit Eicker
AP to Define Standards for Excerpts
The AP (Associated Press) will attempt to define clear standards regarding excerpts and its copyright; http://is.gd/ydz
Google: “Google Sidewiki … allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage. Google Sidewiki appears as a browser sidebar, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page. … In developing Sidewiki, we wanted to make sure that you’ll see the most relevant entries first. We worked hard from the beginning to figure out which ones should appear on top and how to best order them. So instead of displaying the most recent entries first, we rank Sidewiki entries using an algorithm that promotes the most useful, high-quality entries. It takes into account feedback from you and other users, previous entries made by the same author and many other signals we developed. If you’re curious, you can read more on our Google Research Blog about the infrastructure we use for ranking all entries in real-time. … We’re releasing Google Sidewiki as a feature of Google Toolbar (for Firefox and Internet Explorer) and we’re working on making it available in Google Chrome and elsewhere too. We also have the first version of our API available today to let anyone work freely with the content that’s created in Sidewiki.”
TC: “Google says Sidewiki is absolutely separate from last year’s SearchWiki, and comments/votes won’t be aggregated. – Besides the sites I listed above, TechCrunch50 startup DotSpots, which launched publicly last week, is very similar to Sidewiki. Its no surpise, then, that Google VP Marissa Mayer liked Dotspots so much when it first demo’d in 2008: ‘It’s a really beautiful idea and I really like anything that pushes the web forward in that way.’”
SEL: “Sidewiki feels like another swing at something Google seems to desperately desires – a community of experts offering high quality comments. Google says that’s something that its cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted more than a system for ranking web pages. They really wanted a system to annotate pages across the web. – Of course, there’s a way this already happens, through existing commenting system that many sites have. Google may produce unease in some quarters by pushing its own would-be universal commenting system (through an API, anyone can have Sidewiki comments be embedded into their actual pages). Others tired of moderation and spam fighting may feel relieve that Google might provide more relevant comments.”
NYT: “The idea of a service to annotate Web sites has been around for a decade. Back in the Web 1.0 days, a start-up called Third Voice allowed people to post unmoderated comments on sites. After receiving some initial buzz in 1999, the company changed its model a year later and eventually shut down its service altogether in 2001. Some Web site operators complained that the comments were nothing more than Web graffiti. – Of course, Google’s Sidewiki will have an advantage over its predecessors: wide distribution. The company’s toolbar is used by millions of people.“