Kirby Fergusons theory of creativity

"Kirby Ferguson, creator of the absolutely outstanding Everything is a Remix series, explains his theory of creative inspiration, remix, and cultural commons, citing some of history's best-loved "individual" creators and explaining how what they did was a remix, an extension and a part of the work that came before them." (via Boingboing)

Summary/Overview "Copyright in the 21st century"

All the buzz about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and Megaupload has brought the topic copyright on the screens of many people, who probably haven't been aware of that issue before. On Neunetz.com (which happens to be a good blog for all things internet) you can now find a profound summary about copyright and filesharing in the 21st century. 

Marcel Weiss, the author of neunetz.com, is writing about copyright issues since 2007, and you can be sure that he knows what's up. The summary is great for everybody who's just beginnnig to show interest in this topic. Unfortunately, it is written in German, although I think there's a large audience of non-German people and artists (especially in the music-scene in Berlin) which could be interested in those informations too, as they have to deal with it when releasing music over here. 
Therefor, I might translate the most important parts step by step, and publish them on this blog. Let me know If you are one of those readers, it might speed up the progress.

Until then, here's the link to the Summary on Neunetz.com!

SACEM (French GEMA) allows their clients to use non-commercial CC licenses

From yesterday on, French musicians, composers and lyricists, who are members of the SACEM, can license their work under the non-commercial Creative Commons License. I think the german GEMA should allow their clients to do likewise. It would be a step into the right direction, and it would show their goodwill, which I doubt they have at all. For me it seems like the GEMA ist just trying to preserve itself, nothin more. Therefore, I will give some more information on the GEMA soon, and why they suck so bad. 

A thorough article about the new development at SACEM is to be found here.