I’m still stuck on the following dependent clause: “In a dramatic series of tweets,…” I can’t help it. That’s just funny. Because for me personally, the verb tweet will never quite convey the kind of gravity that begs for an adjective like dramatic. But that’s just my personal taste for what Roy Blount Jr. calls “sonicy” in discussing the correlation ...
Copyright critics, particularly those voices murmuring in the halls of academia and legal scholarship, seem to question the purpose of copyright as though the law itself has generative properties. While it is true that copyright imposes one kind of constraint, and that constraints in general tend to be generative in the creative process, copyright’s critics focus a great deal of ...
Mike Masnick, editor and founder of Techdirt often writes like a smug frat boy, substituting scorn for ideas, and is frequently careless about fact-checking. This may be be why his mantra sounds sillier every day, as he bangs on about all that is wrong with just about anyone who believes copyright still plays a role in the digital age. Seriously, ...
I had to call attention to this article by Megan Garber, writing for The Atlantic about Jennifer Lawrence’s nude photo shoot for Vanity Fair. The photo itself is brilliant as is Garber’s analysis of it. Lawrence’s calling the hacking of her private photos a “sex crime” is entirely reasonable. And I am reminded why I care about copyright, why it still ...
Yesterday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt was interviewed on public radio and simulcast on Google Hangouts. WAMU’s Diane Rhem threw softballs, slow and over the plate at Schmidt, providing a friendly platform for the chairman to evangelize the many ways Google makes the world a better place. Coincidentally, I happened to be editing the following: For those who don’t know, ChillingEffects.org ...
