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• On the post: Ahimsa: Sita Sings The Blues Now CC-0 'Public Domain'

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2013 @ 09:38am

  Re:

  Yes, the old songs are still under full ?. Everything other than the old songs (including all the visuals) is now CC-0/"Public Domain"/all "rights" waived to be best of my ability. http://sitasingstheblues.com/license.html

• On the post: The SHOCKING Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies!

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Facebook Response

  Thanks, got it (and posted your quote here below before seeing that you'd posted it first).

• On the post: The SHOCKING Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies!

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 12:41pm

  Update

  As of a few minutes ago, the problem has been fixed (total time of blocked access: just over 24 hours). A FB communications person just emailed me:
  

  I'm so sorry for the inconvenience caused, there was a temporary misconfiguration in our photo review systems which caused a very small subset of users to be incorrectly enrolled in one of our checkpoints. There was no issue with your original photo, we have a combination of automated and human-review systems dedicated to keeping people safe, and a bug caused one of these systems to incorrectly enroll a small number of users into checkpoints.
  
  We have since remedied the issue, and remediated all affected accounts. Please let me know if you or others are still experiencing any difficulties.

• On the post: The SHOCKING Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies!

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:08am

  Re: Nuts

  My boyfriend's daughters named her. She came from the SPCA with another cat, who they named Ella. Nut Ella. Not my fault.

• On the post: The SHOCKING Photos That Violated Facebook's Policies!

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2012 @ 10:05am

  Re: My take...

  It was first thing in the morning. I was very sleepy.

• On the post: House Republicans: Copyright Law Destroys Markets; It's Time For Real Reform

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2012 @ 09:44pm

  I'd switch

  Really if Republicans just want to be "not Democrats," they should go this way. I don't want to be a Democrat any more either, it's just that Republicans suck even harder. If they start differentiating themselves by sucking less than Democrats, I'd gladly join them. This would be a great start. You have an opportunity, Republicans! You will also have to drop the fringe religious extremism and woman-hating, but I bet you can do it. Just be less evil than Democrats, rather than more.

• On the post: The Cake Copyright Is A Lie; Safeway Just Doesn't Want To Be Mocked

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 10:04am

  Bravo on the title

  I know titling the articles can sometimes be a challenge. This one should get an award.

• On the post: Larry Downes' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2012 @ 11:50am

  my favorite paragraph

  There's no balance. Either you have freedom of speech or you don't. Either you trust in the marketplace of ideas or you don't have one. Mark Twain once said that "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." But that was before the Internet. Now both can travel all the way around the world without needing shoes, and do so instantly. The medium is not the message.
  
  Well said.

• On the post: No, Copyright Is Not A Human Right

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 09:30am

  Choose One

  A. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
  
  B. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
  
  These are mutually exclusive, just as Freedom of Speech and Copyright are mutually exclusive. Choose one.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Author Removes Blog Post After Being Threatened For Quoting 4 Sentences

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2012 @ 03:34pm

  Re: Re: Nina Paley

  http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/02/23/incentive-to-create-ii/
  
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/03/tax-incentives/
  
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/10/my-works-are-like-my-children/
  
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/15/balance-again/
  
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/14/incentive-to-create/
  
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/31/a-world-without-poop/

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Author Removes Blog Post After Being Threatened For Quoting 4 Sentences

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2012 @ 02:16pm

  It's amazing how frequently we see stories of copyright being used as censorship

  
  It's not amazing to me. Copyright is used only for censorship. That's the entire mechanism of copyright: legal suppression of media. It's better called censor-right.

• On the post: Yes, There Are Many, Many, Many, Many Legal Uses Of BitTorrent

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2012 @ 06:03pm

  archive.org

  Archive.org also encourages BitTorrents:
  

  The BitTorrent protocol is now the fastest way to download items from the Archive, because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, as well as from other people who have downloaded these torrents already. The distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with slower access to the Archive.

• On the post: Economist Combats 'Myths Of Piracy' With More Myths

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2012 @ 09:58am

  that face

  Do you really make a face THAT CUTE when you're disgusted by bullshit? I sure don't.

• On the post: Should Creative Commons Drop Its NonCommercial & NoDerivatives License Options?

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2012 @ 01:57pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Stallman applies no-derivs (-ND) restrictions on everything he writes, and everything the US FSF puts out. -NC isn't the only unFree restriction, -ND violates the Four Freedoms as well.

• On the post: B-Movie Legends Troma Entertainment Releases 150 Films On YouTube

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2012 @ 05:38pm

  Yay!

  Go Lloyd! Go Troma!
  I hope some of these movies end up on the Internet Archive next.

• On the post: Two Open Source Communities Battle It Out Over Trademarks

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2012 @ 05:32pm

  Open Source Trademarks

  Clearly what's needed is an Open Source Trademarks organization. I have a great idea for a logo...

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 09:43am

  Re:

  ...and Huge asked for permission first. Notice how my movie actually got made.

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 09:35am

  Re:

  No art for you. Art is only for big corporations with lawyers and license departments. Not for you and me.

• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 09:30am

  This.

  Oh my god, this. This is how I became a copyright abolitionist. I spent about a year in the Kafka-esque nightmare that is the music license permission system. I made it out alive, but Never Again.

• On the post: The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

  

  Nina Paley ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2012 @ 05:58pm

  archive.org

  And if anyone's worried about bearing storage costs themselves, the Internet Archive will host open content for free, forever.

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