Posted on 27 June 2008 by Raizel
In the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy, Dr. Miranda Bailey breaks out with her mad Star Wars knowledge, both movie canon and the books, prompted by a patient referring to Han Solo. She then turns to her co-workers and declares “What, I’m a fan of sci-fi!” Why should she feel the need to defend her [...]
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Posted on 26 June 2008 by keidra
Bless his geeky heart, Uncle Trent is at it again. He’s released download statistics for The Slip on Google Earth. Since my job is about using “emerging media” to engage an audience , and I am also a slobbering NIN fan, the whole approach of using freeware and Open Source (google, flickr, YouTube, blogger, you [...]
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Posted on 25 June 2008 by Raizel
Check out Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice, 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008). [translation: it's in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts] She argues that the non-commercial nature of fan works makes them transformative, an important element in determining whether a use of a copyrighted work was fair use. (She [...]
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Posted on 18 June 2008 by Raizel
In several recent blog and news stories (including my favorite headline of the bunch: The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers), the AP’s stated fair use policy for bloggers is discussed. And what is the limits of AP’s version of fair use? If a blogger wants to use more than [...]
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