A (admittedly late – sorry!) recap of last summer’s Gen Con from guest blogger V. Obarski. Thanks! Like many women who attend gaming convention Gen Con, I was introduced to gaming through my husband. But I’ve also attended for more than 10 years, which I believe gives me some solid street cred among the geek [...]
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Due to the difficult line determining what is commercial and non-commercial use of copyrighted materials, Creative Commons has recently completed a study regarding this issue — with surveys of both content creators and users (PDF full report here). This study has lots of interesting information for the fan-creative-remix community. The study’s findings include that Many [...]
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This was supposed to be a book review of William Patry’s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. However, while reading this book, I kept thinking back to Mark Helprin’s Digital Barbarism. Patry looks over the history of copyright and how we got to the place we are at — where many ignore copyright, [...]
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