Copyright is colonialism: Polish internet guru speaks
Speaking at the Brain Bar Budapest futurological congress in Budapest, Jaroslaw Lipszyc, Polish poet and President of the Modern Poland Foundation, recounted his own experience of the development of computing systems,...
Abundance versus scarcity: Of e-books, fabbers, and James Burke
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been doing more than a little digging into the works of historian, journalist, and futurist James Burke. Lately, I’ve come across some more recent predictions of...
At rights management conference for digital era, publishing industry is still stuck in the...
Rights are more important than ever in the digital publishing world of today. In that respect, it’s not surprising there would be a conference devoted entirely to managing rights to digital...
Grim and gritty Power Rangers fan film brings fanfic back into legal spotlight
A new legal battle over fanfic might be shaping up. In the last couple of days, music video director Joseph Kahn and producer Adi Shankar released a 15-minute short film reimagining...
Scribd charging for free ebooks but not paying anything to authors?
This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl's Paperback Writer blog.. It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can't...
New York Times socks writers $1,884 for quoting fewer than 300 words: ‘All the...
Journalists and other writers, including the e-book variety, rely constantly on fair use in quoting big shots such as Donald Trump.
Without fair use, the collective IQ of the writers' output would drop 20 points. Trumpian...
Disney CEO urges workers to fund copyright lobbying for TPP
The Walt Disney Company has had a toxic relationship with the U.S. political process at least as far back as the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, a.k.a. the Mickey Mouse Protection...
Latest e-reader numbers show how skewed AAP ebook figures are
The latest eMarketer data on U.S. e-reader usage - already covered by Chris Meadows - provides some interesting perspective on those much-vaunted Association of American Publishers (AAP) figures showing a static...
'Internet' vs. 'internet' and 'Web' vs. 'web': Wisdom from Net guru Bob Wyman based...
Moderator: You should cap "Internet" and "Web," at least in a "the" context. Below, excerpted with permission from a post to the online-news list, is wisdom from Bob Wyman, a Google...
They say it’s your birthday
Have you ever considered how the advent of digital technology has changed a simple thing like your birthday? It bemuses me every time my own special day comes around.
I’ve hung out...