Posted on 31 December 2008 by Raizel
James Boyle’s The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind is an excellent overview of the complexity of the modern intellectual property system. This book builds upon the works of the popularizers of copyright scholarship, including Lawrence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Yochai Benkler. This would be an excellent book to teach a survey class [...]
Filed under: copyright, free culture, intellectual property, open source, parody and satire, participatory culture, public domain, transformative | Tagged: copyright, free culture, intellectual property, open source, parody and satire, participatory culture, public domain, research tips, transformative | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 28 December 2008 by Raizel
Two recent books, East Asian pop culture : analysing the Korean wave (EAPC) & Pop goes Korea : behind the revolution in movies, music, and internet culture, discuss the Korean wave of pop culture — called hallyu in Korean (and hanryu in Japanese). While there have been several books written about hallyu in Korean — [...]
Filed under: Asia, Hallyu, Korea, Korean soaps, book review, cultural memory, cultural ownership | Tagged: Asia, book review, cultural memory, cultural ownership, fansubbing, Hallyu, Korea, Korean soaps, Korean television dramas, manwha | 6 Comments »
Posted on 17 December 2008 by keidra
I was checking out Ars Technica about a week ago and they posted this article about Blackbird; it’s a customized version of Mozilla that’s geared toward the African American community. The idea behind Blackbird, (CEO of 40A, Inc.) Ed Young told Ars, is “to broaden the Internet experience for African Americans. We want to offer [...]
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Posted on 11 December 2008 by Raizel
According to today’s New York Times article, YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money, we could be making the big bucks on You Tube: One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure incomes from the Web site. But [...]
Filed under: 1000 true fans, economic analysis, fan labor, fans, social media, user-generated content, you tube | Tagged: fan labor, user-generated content, you tube, Rain | Leave a Comment »
