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Twitter Links Art in the Era of the Internet (and Why Open Education Matters)
During the late 1990s, when the internet first boomed, we talked a lot about creative destruction — about how old businesses would collapse, making…

March 29 2012, 1:35am | Comments
Link What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy
It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied…

January 30 2012, 5:28pm | Comments
Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy
Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments
Link Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish…

January 15 2012, 2:32pm | Comments
Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose…

October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Link Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Link The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas,…

December 1 2010, 5:22am | Comments
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November 10 2010, 6:19am | Comments
Link In Praise of Copying: Get Your Free Copy
Just a quick fyi: If you head over to the Harvard University Press web site, you can grab a free copy of Marcus Boon’s new book, In Praise of Copying,…

November 3 2010, 8:26am | Comments
Link Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence
We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as…

May 29 2010, 2:01am | Comments
Link The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan…
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Link Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect.…

February 24 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Link Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about…

February 7 2010, 10:20am | Comments
Link For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient…

January 27 2010, 3:17pm | Comments
Link GOOD COPY BAD COPY
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments
Link Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments

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