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A few interesting things here, including the little-known fact that you need a (nearly impossible to get, if you're an ordinary person) synch license to post a cover song on YouTube, and that ContentID can now identify cover songs, up to and including drunk guys belting out "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the back of police cars.

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Alias’ Gareth Hague on the perception of free, the copying of his London Olympics typeface, and the varying levels of fakery.

Good, bad, and ugly clauses in intellectual-property agreements.

As you might guess, the takedowns are almost exclusively DMCA notices from major copyright holders.

"Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation."

In particular, CC provides easy-to-use licenses to reserve only some rights and grant particular uses.

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At the bottom:
"What if I don't want images from my site to be pinned?

We have a small piece of code you can add to the head of any page on your site:"

Blog post from Flickr on the features they've worked out with Pinterest, including automatic attribution of Flickr photos back to the original source and disabled "pinning" when other sharing is disabled.