Legacy technology
How many obsolete technology in a single photo. I clearly recall all of that being the (almost) state of the art of 2008, the year I took that photo.
...so by the same standards, US companies aren't violating my privacy rights unless they are convicted in an US court?
Okay, sure, whatever. If that's your understanding of the legal part of what they did, then you do you.
So let me tackle this from another perspective.
I am a self-published author.
I have released a very large portion of my work under a #CreativeCommons Zero license. I am generally in favor of the free flow of information.
But I still wouldn't want others to freely share my work in its entirety - that is, including the parts for which I retain #copyright - without my consent.
Even if our legal perspectives differ - do you agree that consent matters?
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
> ...so by the same standards, US companies aren't violating my privacy rights unless they are convicted in an US court?
That's not what I said and I'm sure you know that.
Does US Law and the Constitution apply in Countries other than the US?
I mean, look, I may be guilty of violating the UK's Terrorism Act if I write, "I support Palestine Action and the fundamental rights of all Palestinians. Free Gaza! Free Palestine! From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!"
> The UK government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organization under the Terrorism Act 2000 in July 2025, making it a crime to be a member or express support, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
But those same words are protected speech by the US Constitution. Since I am a US Citizen, on US soil, I can say whatever the fuck I want about Israel or the UK Government. Fuck Israel and fuck Yvette Cooper and Kier Starmer. Actually, fuck King Charles, too, for marrying Diana when he didn't love her, and treating Harry like shit.
But I'm sure if the UK Government wanted to, they could put out a warrant for my arrest. But I'd have a pretty good chance to quash it because of the First Amendment.
The UK has a different legal and justice system than the US, and has no Freedom of Speech. "Proscription" is blatantly Unconstitutional in the US. It's not in the UK.
So geography definitely matters, and while other Countries have the concept of innocent until proven guilty, no other countries are as absolute in that than the US.
> I am a self-published author.
So am I.
> I have released a very large portion of my work under a #CreativeCommons Zero license. I am generally in favor of the free flow of information.
All of my works are released under CC-BY-SA, even the one's I sell at Amazon. I respect your CC0 decision.
> But I still wouldn't want others to freely share my work in its entirety - that is, including the parts for which I retain #copyright - without my consent.
Have you read the CC0 license? If you don't want others to freely share your works you need to license your works under a different license.
> Even if our legal perspectives differ - do you agree that consent matters?
Not when it comes to works I've created and have made the conscious decision to let others use my work freely, no. Sorry.
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
Because under U.S. Law and the Constitution, a Defendant is presumed innocent until they are convicted in a Court of Law.
It doesn't matter if I murdered my neighbor, or downloaded 300TB of music from Spotify.
I would not be guilty of either crime until I was convicted.
The Internet Archive wasn't convicted until the Publishers won their case in Court. Therefore, when the Publishers sued The Internet Archive, they were not guilty of any crime or civil infraction.
A lawsuit is an accusation only. A criminal indictment is an accusation only.
...so by the same standards, US companies aren't violating my privacy rights unless they are convicted in an US court?
Okay, sure, whatever. If that's your understanding of the legal part of what they did, then you do you.
So let me tackle this from another perspective.
I am a self-published author.
I have released a very large portion of my work under a #CreativeCommons Zero license. I am generally in favor of the free flow of information.
But I still wouldn't want others to freely share my work in its entirety - that is, including the parts for which I retain #copyright - without my consent.
Even if our legal perspectives differ - do you agree that consent matters?
FYI I gave a presentation in Brussels last week at the European #PublicDomain Day 2026.
It's a more personal story than I usually do, about how easy it is to get lost in all the import advocacy work. Almost forgetting why you started to work on them in the first place. It is also a call to action, for people to enjoy the Public Domain & to use it to create new art. And for institutions to enable this. Especially in these, difficult, volatile times:
I had some technical issues, so I presented using a pdf on one laptop and speakers on my personal laptop.
Not my best performance, but I hope /assume it got the message across. It was a lovely event & I learned quite a few new things about the #PublicDomain
In case you want to see more of my hobby with (mostly) Public Domain and/or Creative Commons licensed footage and sound tinkering:
https://makertube.net/c/musicamatica_channel/videos
#DIY #Jamuary #Music #HappyAccidents #BobRoss #Video #CreativeCommons
Hello #Fediverse,
as #FOSDEM 2026 is approaching I was thinking about bridging the livestreams to #PeerTube as well.
Streams are under #CreativeCommons license that allows sharing videos, so there is no big deal in it.
As there are plenty of rooms (and we dibs Social Web for #VHSky 😀 ), it would be fun to coordinate streaming accross multiple instances to stream as much rooms as possible without overloading single instance.
What do you think, anybody interested?
Also, anybody has idea how to actually bridge m3u to PeerTube? @j4n3z maybe?
Seth of the Fediverse
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🎤 New podcast episode! I meet creative commons musician Timezone LaFontaine we talk about about his new album, creative collaborations, music, art, and more! https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/podcast/timezone-lafontaine-lorenzos-music-podcast/
🎤 New podcast episode! I meet creative commons musician Timezone LaFontaine we talk about about his new album, creative collaborations, music, art, and more! https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/podcast/timezone-lafontaine-lorenzos-music-podcast/
joene extra
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Follow #EPDD26 if you want tot read about the European Public Domain Day in Brussels today.
@CMFrancoise is doing a great job sharing updates! Follow her account to stay in the loop.
Talks are streamed, but sadly only available to people who have registered. Talks will be recorded as well and afaik made available for everybody. I hope to share my talk some time afterwards.
#EUPublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CreativeCommons #Copyright #Policy #Europe
Follow #EPDD26 if you want tot read about the European Public Domain Day in Brussels today.
@CMFrancoise is doing a great job sharing updates! Follow her account to stay in the loop.
Talks are streamed, but sadly only available to people who have registered. Talks will be recorded as well and afaik made available for everybody. I hope to share my talk some time afterwards.
#EUPublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CreativeCommons #Copyright #Policy #Europe
@juergen_hubert I don't have a great deal of time for reading, but if these make it onto soundcloud, or some other streaming service, lmk.
Well, this is not something I plan on tackling personally - I have too much on my plate already.
On the other hand, I _have_ put all these translations under a #CreativeCommons Zero license, so others are free to do this if they want to.
And on the third claw, @rorystarr has done readings of quite a few of these tales on YouTube, so you can start with those:
Charles U. Farley
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Alexis Kauffmann
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Mine de rien, le petit rayonnage #creativecommons commence doucement à se faire une place dans ma bibliothèque :)
Mine de rien, le petit rayonnage #creativecommons commence doucement à se faire une place dans ma bibliothèque :)
I just got an email from someone who has entered a preprint paper of mine into a chatbot and generated some output from it ('additional ideas'). They did not ask me beforehand to do this. They say in the email the (SocArxiv) CC By-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License allows them to do this. Does it? They want me to do a survey to tell them my opinions on the output. I wont.
#cc #creativecommons @creativecommons #genAI #AI #academia #academicchatter
alcinnz
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A long overdue #Introduction.
I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).
I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.
#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Naturalist
A long overdue #Introduction.
I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).
I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.
#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Naturalist
