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The Minute Memes project: reframing copyright restrictions one idea at a time, through a series of short, captivating, classroom-ready videos by award-winning artist and animator Nina Paley.

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Volunteer. We have lots of projects going on, and can always use help in whatever amount your interests and time permit. If you have experience grantwriting, that would be especially useful right now — we've have some success applying for grants, but our main bottleneck is still simply getting the applications done.
Submit a story of how copyright got in your way. (See here for an example, part of our effort to "Humanize the Harm" of copyright.)
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The Surprising Origins (and Future) of Copyright

Learn the unexpected history of copyright: its origins as a censorship law transformed into a monopoly to support the nascent publishing industry, and how helping writers and artists was not its goal then or now.

The "Creator-Endorsed" Mark:

A seal that enables artists to signal which distributors share revenue with them, while still allowing the artist's work to spread freely.

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Videos

To document the public perception of copyright today, we went around Chicago with a video camera over two days in the summer of 2006, asking strangers what they think about copyright...

"The Revolution Will Be Animated" (documentary by Marine Lormant Sebag)

A documentary film focusing on animator Nina Paley and her decision to release her feature film Sita Sings the Blues under a Creative Commons Share Alike license.

"History of Copyright and Information Ownership" (Talk by Karl Fogel, at the Stanford University Library, 19 Oct 2006)

The talk lasts about 90 minutes, including the question-and-answer period. The audience members' backgrounds were in library science, computer science, publishing, and law, so the Q&A is as useful as the talk.