Music Publisher's Takedown Strikes The Wrong Chord

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Music | No Comments

In February 2006, a part-time Canadian music student established a modest, non-commercial website that used collaborative wiki tools, such as those used by Wikipedia, to create an online library of public domain musical scores. Eleven days ago, the IMSLP disappeared from the Internet.

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Wii Music disc to include licensed songs, Nintendo 'not really thinking' about DLC

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Songs | No Comments

Filed under: Nintendo Wii, E3, Rhythm Speaking at the Nintendo’s 2008 E3 developer roundtable, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that the Wii Music “game” disc will contain 50 songs, featuring a variety of of public domain songs, as well as licensed music. As for DLC? Nintendo is “not really thinking” about digital song distribution, instead focusing on using WiiConnect24 to share music videos. Gallery: Wii MusicPermalink | Email this | Comments

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Wordpress Post Writing Tips - Pt. 4 Images

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Pictures | No Comments

A good image is worth a thousand words, use them to add impact, humor and personality to your writing. Selecting images that get noticed is an art itself and a few things need to be kept in mind during the selection process: 1. The internet audience is overwhelmingly male. 2. People are attracted to pictures of people, particularly faces. 3. Studies indicate that even women prefer to see women in advertisements. I’m not saying add pictures of hot chicks to every post on your blog, I’m jus

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As 70th anniversary is marked, Czech author’s works now in public domain (Radio Prague)

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments

The noted Czech author Karel Čapek is perhaps best known for coining the term “robot” in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots”. Now, as Czechs mark seventy years since his death, Karel Čapek’s works are also shifting into the public domain.

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9 Reasons Not to Attend Law School

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments

To preface, this is sort of a joke. I say sort of, because I think there are some people who are just made to go to law school, and this probably won’t and shouldn’t deter them. It’s mostly a warning to those people considering law school for lack of anything better to do. With that said, I present to you 9 Reasons Not to Attend Law School: 9. Expensive Books Law textbooks may be one of the most overlooked but ridiculous aspects of law school. I spend an average of $500 on books per semest

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Asia's fastest supercomputer 'Eka' now even faster

January 4, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Software | No Comments

Short description Eka, the fastest supercomputer in Asia and among the top 10 supercomputers globally, has further upgraded its performance from 117.9 teraflops (TF) to 132.8 teraflops through software enhancements and tuning. Eka has been built by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. Article body Eka, the fastest supercomputer in Asia and among the top 10 supercomputers globally, has further upgraded its performance from 117.9 teraflops (TF

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Damian Green analysis: Tories would relish a 'show trial'

January 3, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments

If David Cameron and Boris Johnson were told about the arrest in advance, was no-one in Government given a similar courtesy? And is there anything wrong with opposition spokesmen bringing into the public domain documents that are arguably of public interest? There are more than a few people now in ministerial office who did the same before.

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Music Publisher's Takedown Strikes The Wrong Chord

January 3, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Music | No Comments

In February 2006, a part-time Canadian music student established a modest, non-commercial website that used collaborative wiki tools, such as those used by Wikipedia, to create an online library of public domain musical scores. Eleven days ago, the IMSLP disappeared from the Internet.

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