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11/08/07 // Link:
Man Booker Prize Shortlist To Be Free Downloads Frankly I’m surprised they got the publishers to agree to do this, given that industry’s consistent lack of understand of digital media. Of course I’ve never really met a Man Booker novel I actually liked, but hey maybe the shortlist …continue reading »
09/30/07 // Link:
British Library Books Go Digital Good news from the British Library System, finally, some rare books are set to be available in digital form. From the BBC: More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization …continue reading »
07/07/07 // Link:
Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread I was cleaning out some old notes and ran across this link, a bit old, but definitely worth a read if you haven’t before: By conventional industry logic, file sharing hurts the odds for commercial success. Wilco front man Jeff …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
Fugazi on Metafilter One of the reasons I still love metafilter is that posters take the time to put up more than one link. In this case a great collection of Fugazi links, Ian MacKaye interviews and more. There’s even a link to …continue reading »
03/27/07 // Link:
Writing in the free world Jonathan Lethem explains to Salon why copyright laws stifle creativity and why he’s giving away the film option to his new novel. Lethem continues to be an outspoken critic of the publishing world and, in my opinion, one of the …continue reading »
02/09/07 // Link:
The Ecstasy of Influence Jonathan Lethem’s amazing essay on copyright, plagiarism and what’s wrong with the American copyright system. Quite possibly the best essay you’ll read this year. Long yes, but well worth it especilly when you get to the end and realize how …continue reading »
02/03/07 // Link:
Viacom Terrorizes YouTube with Bullshit DMCA Notices Viacom did a general search on YouTube for any term related to any of its shows, and then spammed YouTube with 100,000 DMCA take-down notices alleging that all of these clips infringed its copyright and demanding that they be censored …continue reading »
01/30/07 // Link:
The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. Posner At 116 pages — and small pages at that — Richard A. Posner’s “The Little Book of Plagiarism” is aptly titled. It’s a brief but provocative and illuminating meditation on the current craze for searching out, denouncing and punishing authors …continue reading »
11/21/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: RIAA toilet paper Jinx is sellng $6 rolls of RIAA bumwad — though it seems redundant. Those four letters are already inextricably associated with dirty assholescontinue reading »
10/02/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: Gilberto Gil slams WIPO “Tropicalismo legend Gilberto Gil, now serving as the Brazilian Minister of Culture, excoriated the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization this week. He told WIPO that its fundamental reason for existence needed to be rexamined, now that knowledge-goods have become so …continue reading »
08/17/06 // Link:
A Nation Divided Over Piracy Part two of Wired’s article on Sweden’s Pirate Bay/Pirate Party. I wonder if, with the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, some unwitting folks will find themselves googled off into previously uncharted philosophical waters.continue reading »
08/16/06 // Link:
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay Excellant article on the folks behind Pirate Bay the popular torrent tracking site (part one of two). And yes I do think copyright laws are outdated, over-restrictive and need to be rewritten.continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
Copyright: A Broken Contract with the Public Copyright law and ?Intellectual Property? are not about ownership or property. You own what you make. Other people own what they make. If someone walks into your house and takes what you have made without your permission, they have stolen …continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
News of the dead: Bill Gates: Copyright reformists are commies, all will bow before Windows Media continue reading »