Category: Commons
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A Payday Built on Bad Policy
The new CLASSICS act is a cash grab for big record labels. Meredith Filak Rose lays out how the RIAA wants to put artists and audiences even further under their boots.
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Free Thing of the Week: Unsplash for iOS
Getting back to speed with our free stuff, we bring you a new free app from the folks at Unsplash.
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Is Copyright Term Extension Finally Done?
Has the tide finally turned toward more sensible copyright law in the United States? Timothy Vollmer thinks so.
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Free Thing of the Week: La chute d’une plume (pèse plus que ta pudeur)
The Free Thing this time is an open source movie from the bygone times of 2011.
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Free Thing of the Week: Tactical Data Engagement
This week’s Free Thing helps citizens engage their government through data collection and analysis provided by the cities themselves.
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Free Thing of the Week: A Future in Commons: A Tribute to Bassel Khartabil
A tribute to the remarkable spirit of Bassel Khartabil from the people at Disquiet Junto.
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Free Thing of the Week: Kintsugi Magazine
The first magazine from Mastodon.social? It’s our free thing of the week.
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Free Thing of the Week: Seasonal Psalms
Back to books we go for this week’s Free Thing, a recent release of haiku, sijo, tanka, and shanzi from Andreas Gripp.
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Free Thing of the Week: Gomel, 1986
Inspired by the thirty-first anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, this six song album from Naviar Records is our Thing of the Week.
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Free Thing of the Week: Theft! A History of Music
Our publisher brings you the free stuff, this time a comic book about the 2000 year old attempt to rein in the power of music.