158 - Flickr Commons feat. Jessamyn West

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Jessamyn West about the public domain, technology, and various related topics.

It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball. Media mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian) https://www.librarian.net/stax/5566/the-mining-of-the-public-domain/ https://jessamyn.com/tweets/ https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/ Request to Verify Eligibility for Free Ebooks for the Print Disabled https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSBbT17HSQywTm-fQawOK7G4dN-QPbDWNstdfvysoKTXCjKA/viewform Veii’s music: https://veii.bandcamp.com/ Who Owns this Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs https://fit.princeton.edu/publications/who-owns-sentence-history-copyrights-and-wrongs Free Whistleshttps://linktr.ee/3DwhistlesMy Justice of the Peace tumblrhttps://vermontjp.tumblr.com/Logan Airport chapelhttps://discovermass.com/church/our-lady-of-the-airways-east-boston-ma/Soul of a New Machinehttps://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.htmlMatteo Lanehttps://matteolanecomedy.com/My DNC bloghttps://www.librarian.net/dnc/Librarian at Burning Manhttps://www.jessamyn.com/journal/02/burnlib.htmlFlickr Commons Explorerhttps://commons.flickr.org/Without a Net…

People in this episode

Host: librarypunk

Guest: Jessamyn West

Topics covered

• public domain
• technology
• blogging
• copyright
• digital divide
• Flickr Commons

Keywords

• public domain
• technology
• blogging
• copyright
• Flickr Commons
• digital divide
• DNC

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DNC, Flickr Commons, Google, Flickr Foundation, WIPO, Librarian.net

Books & works: Who Owns this Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs, Soul of a New Machine

Places: Logan Airport, Vermont

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