The Challenges of IP Relativism
These images of buildings, architectural monuments, sculptures and entire towns or villages from different places in the West (Manhattan, Switzerland, Paris, England etc.) always make me smile. Somehow, I’ve always loved … Continue reading
FREE introductory talk on Copyright for Writers
I will be giving a basic, introductory talk on copyright this Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 7:30 pm at Grand River Unitarian (who is providing the venue at no cost!), 299 … Continue reading
From Owning to Licensing
Most of us who have moved to digital platforms and cloud storage or backups (ipod, ipad, kindle; itunes, ibooks, kindle store) understand intuitively that in some way, the nature of … Continue reading
Red Herrings and Copywrongs
You’ve probably encountered Google Books, if only during the course of an online search for a text. In its early days, the better parts of entire books were online and … Continue reading
Robots kill the Hugo Awards
Yes, there’s a certain symmetry to this–that the reality of our future present has overtaken one of the top awards in the world of futures imagined (for those of you … Continue reading
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