2007年10月16日火曜日

Blog Action Day

So... I think I should write this post in English,
as this blog is registered to Blog Action Day Blogs.

Today is the day... and it seems that there are 15,861 blogs that are participating,
and the combined rss reach of blogs are 12,697,713.

Amazing.

So personally speaking, one of the issues that I'm concerned is Stop-Rokkasho.

Rokkasho mura is a village in Japan's northern Aomori Prefecture
and a nuclear reprocessing plant has been constructed there.

This reprocessing plant creates Plutonium by recycling the waste of existing nuclear power plants,
but when this plutonium is created,
it also creates radioactivity worth 1 year of the nuclear power plants within 1 day.

Now, where do those waste go?

They build a big pipe and omit them to the air and ocean.
A tall chimney and a long pipe 4km long.

INSANE.

Ryuichi Sakamoto launched stop-rokkasho.org to stop this.
Because "stop" seems to have a negative image, he also started "more trees" project.

One of the things he recommends you to do is to use the CO2 calculator
and check out how much CO2 you are omitting and how you can fix that.

I am planning to visit Rokkasho-mura the end of this month.
My mom started to work against Rokkasho too.
My sister lives in Aomori prefecture (not Rokkasho though).

日本語では多くは語りません。坂本龍一さんのインタビュービデオをみてください。

BlogTV SP(August) 3of5 坂本龍一

坂本さんが最後におっしゃっているCO2 Calculatorはこちらです。

2007年10月3日水曜日

A new General Counsel and Vice President for Creative Commons

＜プレスリリース＞

Creative Commons Announces New Vice President and General Counsel

Virginia RutledgeさんがCreative Commonsの Vice President 兼 General Counsel に就任しました。

CC の法律問題、アート関連のイニシアチブを取り、そして米国を含む世界中のアート／文化関連の組織との
パートナーシップに取り組むとのこと。

ニューヨークの法律事務所 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP で知的財産権、アート、エンターテインメント、
独禁法、証券、商法関連の案件を扱ってきた経歴を持ち、クライアントはTime Warner Inc.,
Warner Music Group や Warner
Bros.、そして New Line Cinema等のメディア及び音楽関連業界だったそうです。

アート関連と法律関連のエキスパートということで現在のCCの必要とする人物像にぴったりということで
Lessig先生も非常に喜んでおられます。

News of Rutledge’s appointment has been well received within the
legal and arts communities. “I applaud Creative Commons for its
inspired choice of Virginia Rutledge as Vice President and General
Counsel,” said copyright expert William Patry, Senior Copyright
Counsel, Google Inc. “Virginia’s background in academia, the art world,
and the white-shoe corporate law firm environment is unique. Her
ability to forge consensus, her love of learning and commitment to the
public interest will serve Creative Commons and the rest of us
exceedingly well.”

“Creative Commons couldn’t have made a better choice,” said
Joel Wachs, President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. “Virginia has deep knowledge of contemporary art practices and
institutions, and the practical experience of working within a highly
competitive corporate culture. She will do an excellent job of helping
to build relationships between communities that have a common interest
in promoting vibrant cultural production and exchange.”