Dan Gillmor on the Center for Citizen Media blog writes about the good and bad about online group-based participation. The good happens when community is created and supported: People do things for many reasons, but it’s always about getting something of value back. The value may be a psychic reward of doing something good for [...]
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Which of these is acceptable under copyright law? Republishing books when their authors are almost definitively dead to save a dying culture? Publishing collections of unpublished ephemera, such as love letters and candid photos when the creators are unknown? Ensuring that historic sound recordings are preserved? Or repurposing the writings of a dead author to [...]
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So what possibly could romance novels featuring awkwardly-smooth-talking fictional Native Americans, plagiary, fans, and black-footed ferrets have in common? One bizarre detective story by a group of go-getter romance novel fans on the blog, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! In an extensive investigation of the writings of Cassie Edwards, our intrepid detectives found many instances of [...]
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