I can't believe how excited I am by a relatively obscure court decision in another country about DRM and copyright.

But I'm TOTALLY STOKED!

Find the low-down here:

• OTW says: U.S. Library Of Congress Grants DMCA Exemption for Vidders!!
  
  
• EFF says: EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers

Yay ( Read more... )

Finished the first draft. \o/

And only three days after I thought I'd have it finished, although that was when I thought it would come it at 2,500 words. *laughs at myself* So much for posting in celebration of the AO3.

You should go check the Archive out, by the way. It's in open beta, and you can request an invite. It's awesome; all the hard ( Read more... )

$10,000 prize money for remixes

Yes, you read that right! The Aussie government and Creative Commons have got together and put up prize money for remixes of open resources from government archives. You can find all the details right hereI have to say, I'm tempted to make a collage or vid -- some of the photo archives and maps are kind of neat. And ( Read more... )

I really don't have much to say for myself. I'm up to my eyeballs in marking, and in a weird brainspace. I think because I've seen or heard these horrible things recently. Like ( cut because the first is disturbing )

I have had such a lovely couple of days. People have been so very very nice to me ( Read more... )

A couple of hours ago, Fanlore went live ( Read more... )

I am in love with several things right now.

First, there is my new moral compass, thanks to copperbadge. Is that not a thing of beauty ( Read more... )

With all my blogging about Swancon, I haven't yet mentioned the other exciting fannish thing that's happened to me this week.

I am now a proud member of the Organization for Transformative Works! So much yay ( Read more... )

Swancon is over for another year, and what a fantastic Swancon it was. I promised people I'd put up links to things that were mentioned in the various panels I was on, which you'll find behind the cut, along with some thoughts on other papers and panels I attended.

( Swancon 2008 )

I've been reading all the posts made for "Why I Joined OTW Week", which is happening over on otw_news. This was a mistake on my part, as I find my reasons have already been given.

Before Christmas, I posted about one of my motivations for getting involved ( Valuing the Work in Fanwork), and that still stands. I'm not even going to attempt a precis of all ( Read more... )