User:Chris - DiscoverWorks.org

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Chris Howard

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2 Contact me
3 Page Structure
4 Copyright Law outside the US
5 Reactee shirt: DiscoverWorks.org
6 Pages I'm working on

I'm leading the design and development of the DiscoverWorks.org site.

I am not an attorney, and I am not a rights expert. I am a technologist with some good ideas for mapping rights owners to works. I'd love to hear your suggestions for making DiscoverWorks.org a better platform for finding works and copyright holders, especially for media types other than print.

Email: chris@discoverworks.org

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Contact me

Chris Howard
Email: chris@discoverworks.org

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Page Structure

Here's one of the diagrams laying out the structure of a work page for the book media type:

Copyright Law outside the US

I’ve been reading up on copyright law outside the U.S., with particular focus on the idea of Moral Rights. A few articles:

French copyright law

WIPO translation of the French Intellectual Property Code (”Art. L. 121-1. An author shall enjoy the right to respect for his name, his authorship and his work.”)

Interesting

The music to L’Internationale (The Internationale) is in the public domain in the US, but will remain under copyright in France until 2014.

Tarzan and the Forbidden City by Edgar Rice Burroughs is NOT in the public domain in the US, but is in the public domain in other countries, such as Australia.

Reactee shirt: DiscoverWorks.org

Check out my Reactee shirt for DiscoverWorks.org.

How does it work?

From the Reactee site: “You create a shirt by selecting a slogan, keyword and initial response at the Reactee web site. . . When someone sees your shirt and sends a text message (SMS) with your keyword to the Reactee short code (41411) they get a text message back that you specified.”

What a cool idea. I saw this over on Tcritic and had to make one.

Get your own at: http://reactee.com/DISCOVER