Here are a few tidbits I've come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days.

Downhill Battle, which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They've just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It's definitely a thing to watch. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I'm looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I'm going to watch this pretty carefully.

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. issue as they see it. Uck.They still don't get it. But I guess they won't, given their position.

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons  license. It's called Orion's Arm, which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. It looks pretty amazing - and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work.