Remember when I posted A Guide to Critiquing Copyright in the Digital Age? Quite a few people read it and seemed to enjoy it, which is cool. And most recently, it seems that Joshua Lamel, executive director at Re:Create, wrote an article for the Huffington Post about prospective revision to the DMCA, in which he appears to have followed this ...
Embed from Getty Images In the Fall of 1977, just weeks before gay rights activist Harvey Milk won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the English rock band Queen released the album News of the World. The LP included a short, heavily-rhythmic single called “We Will Rock You”, which typically segues into the anthemic “We Are the ...
Charlie: Dad, how can you hate The Colonel? Stuart (Scottish accent): Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, Smart Ass! – So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) – As mentioned in much older posts, my father was an advertising professional, principally a creative director but also a manager. And one lesson ...
As a follow-up to my post from last week discussing the Copyright Office review of Section 512 of the DMCA, I’m going to shift from my usual format of the editorial essay to outright endorsement of grassroots efforts aimed at letting Congress know that artists and creators want to see change to obsolete aspects of US law that unfairly disadvantage ...
When most people discuss or debate copyright’s value in the contemporary market, they talk about the utility of the law—typically arguing the efficacy or rationale of specific contours like term length or enforcement—while generally overlooking the philosophical principles that led to the IP clause being written into the U.S. Constitution in the first place. This is of course not uncommon ...
