Tag: CREATIVE COMMONS

The Haz-Mat suited activists of DefectiveByDesign gained quite a bit of exposure when they waltzed into Apple stores across the country carrying signs and informing customers about the rights they give up when buying DRM controlled music from the iTunes Music Store. Our sister site, The Digital Music Weblog (she prefers to be called TDMW for short) caught up with the crafty folks at ...

Over on his blog Lawrence Lessig, chairman of the Creative Commons board of directors, writes, "At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft." The check, which arrived on December 30, put the organization well over their $225,000 fundraising goal for 2005. Though $25,000 is pocket change to Microsoft, it's still ...