Friday, August 19, 2005

Wertham is unsurprised

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Gay Batman watercolors served with cease & desist letter. The pictures are still on the Artnet site for now -- some are not work-safe. ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Picker's Mobblog

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I'm participating in this week's discussion of Fred von Lohmann's Measuring the DMCA Against the Darknet . My contribution so f...

Indefinitely Renewable Copyright: Batman versus the Utility Monster

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I recently read a draft of a forthcoming article by Dennis Karjala on congestion externalities as a justification for extending copyright te...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Same planet, different worlds

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I guess I have some sympathy for the nostalgia for physical books expressed by this type of article . After all, I not only label and file ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

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Steve Burt pointed me to the following story, in which the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate threatens to sue a New Zealand publisher over a nove...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

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I've been trying to follow the Grokster commentary, though I'm sure I've missed a lot. I was moved to respond by Tim Wu's c...
Monday, June 27, 2005

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This is a copy of what I posted at SCOTUSBlog's Grokster discussion : While I was not involved in Grokster, I do have a clear bias: Just...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

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The fan fiction discussion is now available as a mp3 file here . I come in near the end, about 3/4 of the way through. It was an interesti...
Monday, June 13, 2005

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Still hoping for an archived source for the Open Source radio show, which was quite interesting -- we spent more time on Star Trek fandom th...

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Naomi Novik and Francesca Coppa, two very smart women, will be talking about fan fiction on Open Source Radio tonight from 7-8, as noted he...
Monday, June 06, 2005

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You can be a Jedi or a Sith in the Star Wars online game, but you can't make music because of copyright concerns. So you can play a mu...
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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Salon writes about a book on my wishlist, "Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture." As I pointed out in Copy This Essay (PDF), m...
Friday, April 01, 2005

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Google Gulp : The FAQ for Google's April 1st product suggests that Google is maybe a little sensitive about privacy and other issues rai...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

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Signal/Noise 2k5 : I will be at this conference, April 8, 2005, and I think it will be great. According to the text they sent me, "The ...
Monday, March 14, 2005

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Music videos made by soldiers in Iraq : The article discusses the legality of showing dead Iraqis under the Geneva Convention, but not the l...