The other day I emailed a netlabel to ask if I could rehost their album art. They didn’t have a version of it online for me to include using a direct link, and it wasn’t under a permissive license that would permit me to redistribute it.
Then yesterday I emailed a fellow who had put [...]
The best hack I’ve seen since Brad Neuberg did AMASS in 2005: Arek Korbik implements Vorbis in Flash, with no dedicated Vorbis support provided by Adobe as part of Flash. It’s a god-level piece of hacking.
What Arek’s hack means is that new sound formats can now be implemented in pure AJAX and deployed with [...]
Something I’ve never understood about Creative Commons is the emphasis on redistribution rights.
For the most part, CC licenses focus on who can upload a copy of a file. A song under any CC license can by uploaded by anybody whose activity fits within the terms of the license. For example, the [...]