Fair use is your right to call a lawyer when YouTube illegally deletes your video

I was heartened by the emergence of Critical Commons, a site and service dedicated to combating the fear, uncertainty, and doubt around fair use and copyright. Critical Commons also provides “an online tool for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by a given community… to build open, informed communities around […]

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High archive weirdness

The slogan for the Bralorne Pioneer Museum is “Their Past Lives Here.” One might be forgiven for thinking the future lives there as well. Check out this picture off of the online archive. (Full size here.) Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940 1941 (?), South Fork Bridge, Gold Bridge, B.C. […]

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