Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Two great tastes that taste great together

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Two of my enthusiasms, plastination and copyright, meet . It is an interesting, possibly exam-worthy question: if I skin and preserve a bod...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Terry Pratchett on free speech theory

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Terry Pratchett, the great fantasist, has just released another Discworld book, Thud! , about immigration and racial tension as played out a...
Monday, September 19, 2005

Mattel Toys, infringement inducer?

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So Mattel is coming out with this videocamera for kids , the Vidster, allowing them to shoot digital video, presumably including video in a ...
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...