I'm glad to see Jon Ippolito's Pool project, at the University of Maine, in the news. The Pool creates a body of reusable art and code objects, with an interface to show their properties and evolution. It encourages its contributors to leave the exclusivity of copyright behind, by showing them the value to be gained by sharing. (In this regard, it echoes the spirit of Creative Commons, though its details and implementation differ sharply.)

Jon has been doing fascinating work with new media for a long time. I learned a great deal from a panel with him at the Guggenheim and his Variable Media Initiative. Don't miss the Legal Protection Fault, an updated 404 with such errors as

Outdated economic driver: Your economic system may have reverted to a property-based business model under pressure from the art market, thus rendering public urls private.