Posted on 25 July 2009 by Raizel
With a license, do you own the e-book? Recently, Amazon.com deleted electronic books written by George Orwell back from customers’ Kindles, including 1984. While Amazon did return the money for purchase, customers were upset that something they “owned” was removed. Amazon explained that it deleted these e-books because they didn’t have the rights to sell the book in [...]
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Posted on 25 July 2009 by keidra
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future of a lot of industries, including journalism. The discussion invariably turned to Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price and I talked up the book and Anderson’s theories. [...]
Filed under: book review, books, economic analysis, free culture, normative behavior, social norms | Tagged: book review, books, Chris anderson, economic analysis, free culture, normative behavior, social norms | 1 Comment »
Posted on 20 July 2009 by Raizel
Based on the popularity of our earlier post on the hallyu wave, we plan on writing more about Korean culture. We are starting with music — specifically pop and rock. This first post will mention some of the issues with Asian music in the U.S. but we will follow with separate posts discussing pop and [...]
Filed under: Asia, Cultural appropriation, Hallyu, Korea, attribution, authenticity, authorial intent, music | Tagged: Asia, attribution, authenticity, authorial intent, Cultural appropriation, Hallyu, Korea, music, pop international | 2 Comments »
Posted on 18 July 2009 by Raizel
The newspaper industry is having severe problems, but is changing copyright law the way to fix things? Richard Posner, highly regarded intellectual property scholar and Federal judge, suggested a drastic change recently: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted [...]
Filed under: attribution, copyright, journalism, news, normative behavior, we own it we can do what we want | Tagged: attribution, citation, copyright, journalism, news, normative behavior, we own it we can do what we want | Leave a Comment »
