Our Law and Society Conference Presentation: The Intellectual Property and Political Economy of Fanworks and other forms of user-generated content

Main points
1. As media consumers become amateur media producers with an (at least perceived) economic stake in a media production, it has become more important for scholars to examine the legal and public policy implications of these fan productions and the communities that create them.
2. Communications theory that has informed most political economy/legal scholarship is [...]

Big Ups to Jon!

Thanks to Jon for the awesome new TLF header logo!

My daily reading - Part One

I am very fortunate to have a job where I get to geek out over web 2.0, social networking sites, blogs, etc. all day long. In my daily online education, I read several blogs on “social media” and such. Here are 3 of my daily faves:
Ars Technica
Newsy blog about technology news and trends; [...]