Okie, dokies. I feel asleep early yesterday night. This resulted in a serious lack of websurfing and nazi-killing….
In a comments thread below, BillB requested the direct link to the Firefly cancellation news. Here’s the news from the director Tim Minear. Here’s the news from Entertainment Weekly.
My brother Matt did a cool new flash animation for his work. Check it out. Matt’s skills are impressive.
Over on Anita’s weblog, I found a link to a test to see if you are a PHB (Pointy Headed Boss). Hopefully I fail the test. I think the writer of the test is Anita’s husband.
Mister P’s fun with his automobile continues. If ever there was a man that needed a wife to straighten him out, it is Mister P.
I was reading about the Creative Commons site today. I’m not sure I understand it fully, but I’m sure someone will explain it to me. From what my cursory glance reveals, it’s a method to declare rights to your works in varying levels of control over what people can do with the content. Traditional copyrights are pretty black and white in what people are allowed to do. The Creative Commons people appear to offer shades of grey.
Best. Casemod. Evar.
That’s enough for now. I need some sleep.
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Thanks for the link. I love the phrase “heavy media hype”. A more accurate one would be “no media hype” or perhaps “patently insufficient media hype.”
Give even the highest quality show zero support and this is what you get.
They’re replacing Firefly with Fastlane? Gag.
Yes, Jack William Bell is my husband. He’s working a contract programming job right now in Michigan, while I’m still in Seattle. wah!
And dopey slashdot where he writes his journal is having a spazz attack at the moment.
With Creative Commons, it’s not so much offering shades of grey as just allowing you to do more with the work. It’s still very clear what you are and aren’t allowed to do.
With standard copyright, you’re not allowed to do very much. With few exceptions, you can’t copy or derive anything from a copyrighted work.
The Creative Commons licenses give you the right to do more with a work (copy, build upon) than regular copyright law, but also place some conditions on allowing you to copy and distribute it (credit the original author, force the new work to be released under the same license, etc.) Some of them also force your work into the public domain sooner than would happen under current copyright law.
For example, the Founder’s Copyright forces a work into the public domain after 14 years, the original term of copyright law in the United States. The NoDerivs license allows others to copy and distribute the work as they please as long as they don’t make modifications to it. The ShareAlike license forces derivative works to also be released under the same license.
Hope this helps. 🙂