Viacom Terrorizes YouTube with Bullshit DMCA NoticesViacom 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 »
The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. PosnerAt 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 »
LACMA’s Magritte exhibit: This is not fair useI just went to this show yesterday and actually got yelled at for trying to take pictures. from BoingBoing: “The ‘Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images’ exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both …continue reading »
Copyright: A Broken Contract with the PublicCopyright 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 »