It may not be you it seems. Or so says the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which received royal assent last week. You probably thought, and until last week the law would have agreed with you, that as the creator of your work you owned it, and that others could not use of profit from the work without permission. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform act includes changes to UK copyright law that allows anyone to use ‘orphan works’ for commercial or non-commercial use, including sub-licensing them.
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Tweets from space
Even if you’re not into Twitter, the messages from Soichi Noguchi are worth a look. He’s currently aboard the International Space Station and regularly updates Twitter with photos he takes from orbit. I want his job, check out the Arora !
Apollo through the astronaut’s eyes
Looking through some Facebook updates earlier I spotted a link to this Guardian gallery with some fantastic pictures from the Apollo moon missions alongside quotes from the astronauts that took the photos. It’s part of history that’s always fascinated me so I thought I’d pass it on.
Fantastic picture
For a while now NASA have been twittering from the Phoenix lander on Mars – well someone on earth posts in the first person on the lander’s behalf! Earlier today MarsPhoenix posted up this fantastic picture on TwitPic of a self-shot from an Astronaut: Those guys are always posting up great stuff, if you’re on […]