Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category

Anderson! Lessig! Smackdown!

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Great discussion at the New York Public Library. Professor Lawrence Lessig from Stanford (author of Free Culture, CODE and other laws of cyberspace) and Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail and Editor of WIRED magazine) were going to sit down and discuss "The Rise and Fall of the Blockbuster". I ...

Outstanding! - NYPL Battle Over Books Event

Friday, November 18th, 2005

So I went to the Battle Over Books event at the New York Public Library. What a great time. Lawrence Lessig was in rare form and the debate over the Google Print project was outstanding. Allan Adler, who held his own during the discussion, even recieved some applause from 5 ...

Cory Doctrow release his new novel via RSS????

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

PSFK has a great post (how did I miss this one???) about Cory Doctrow releasing his book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town as an RSS feed. Basically the feed releases a chapter of the book on a regular basis, starting with the first chapter when you ...

Four Docs from PSFK

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

http://www.psfk.com/2005/08/four_docs.html Thanks to PSFK for the following: Four Docs is launched today as a new opportunity and avenue for anyone to make and upload a four minute documentary. Hosted and run by Channel 4 (in the UK) the website also offers many guides for people planning on making their documentary. FourDocs represents ...

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia Guest-blogging Lessig.org

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003067.shtml Jimmy Wales (who founded the wikipedia and my buddy Ace met at TED Global) is guest-blogging I will be presenting the ten things over the next ten days, but I will let you in on a little secret. I haven't finished the list. In true collaborative style, I want to invite ...

Book Review - Darknet by JD Lasica

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Darknet : Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation JD Lasica First heard of this book at Gnomedex2005. While there I watched JD speak on a panel about tomorrow's media and talk about participatory culture, user generated content and how the smarts are with the audience, not with the people on the ...

Students: Downloading not unethical:- - Business News - Webindia123.com

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Students: Downloading not unethical:- - Business News - Webindia123.com The link above, which is a UPI feed on WEBINDIA123.com shows that the BSA is framing the debate: Downloading music is a gateway to downloading software, the survey found. Among students who say they would always download music or movies without paying for ...

Denise Howell, Buzz Bruggeman, Jason Calacanis on Today’s Digital Legalities

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Buzz Bruggeman 30 yrs practiving law litigation bg with technology built activewords Denise - appellete and IP law programmers of the legal field Buzz - huge friend of mind manager lead the discussion and your things law is static - wrong - very dynamic lots of people blog about the law Howard bashman - aappelete law blogger who keeps up to ...