http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57455904-93/google-bars-site-that-converts-youtube-songs-into-mp3s/
Notable excerpt: > YouTube has spent big money to license music videos > as well as enable users to incorporate music into their > clips free of charge. Google, however, has also been > one of the biggest supporters of free culture and a > proponent of protecting the Internet from censorship. I think we have a major PR problem - tech & culture writers don't understand free culture's aims or identity. I've made this argument against the term "free software" many times: because there are so many millions of dollars worth of brilliant advertising working into people's heads every day, and the word "free" in advertising parlance always means gratis, the "free" in free software (and "free culture") will always be conflated with gratis. I think it's time for a whole wave of discussion about controlling the vocabulary used to discuss culture freedom issues. And for my part, I suggest that we start talking about the "freedom of culture" or "libre culture" in order to make ourselves clear and start conversations about this commonly held mis-perception. Ryan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
