Tag: Creative Commons

  • My submission to the Copyright Review Committee 2012.

    ‘The Arts and the Public Domain; Arts Practice as Culturally Necessary.’   The Arts and the Public Domain.  Ireland requires not alone a statutory organisation, such as a copyright council, it requires also a non-governmental centre for social-media where artists and developers can discuss and decide manifestos which will protect their original works and others’ rights to…

  • Silicon Republic; an article regarding Radical Copyright Law Reform in Ireland.

    Silicon Republic article regarding ‘Radical Copyright Law Reform’  in Ireland. This morning (09/05/2011) Silicon Republic reported on a radical overhaul  of Ireland’s Copyright Law, this is interesting given that most discussions in this area have been limited in recent times to the three strikes and  you’re out nexus of anti-innovation. I am adding here the current…

  • Poetry and digitisation; how derivatives occur.

    The meaning of collaborative work in Poetry and Literature. The author is entitled to ownership of their work. In poetic terms, derivatives do occur, mostly in music and in translations. As stated before on this blog, derivatives are seen as adding to the original works, once attribution is established. The fact that there are appalling…

  • Poems from ‘Bartalk’ by Nessa O Mahony

    Silly Me … by Nessa O Mahony to think the beech would shiver differently today. It’s felt the breeze for aeons though the leaves still tremble to that touch. Why expect another shade of blue behind those tossed-sheet clouds? Imagine thinking that the sun might dance or my face would give the game away. If…

  • Blooming Blossom Pome for Bloomsday in Sunny Dublin.

    16-06-2010 and I couldn’t find a summer flower poem, so it will have to be a spring flower poem. The earliest blossom in our neighbourhood tends to scatter as soon as a wind rises up, leaving minute wee flowers , scattered all over the ground. They have the virtue of shining milk-white and incandescently in…