David Bollier’s Viral spiral : how the commoners built a digital republic of their own is a very good book with a horrible title. While…
Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet intellectual property and culture are tied together. New works are not created…
After a truly great time presenting about fan culture two years ago at MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age, we presented at…
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely…
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is the highly recommended third book by Laurence Lessig, focusing on why and how copyright…
While we can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program, they have put on another great…
Like other grown fangirls, I have a recent history of reading fantasy literature book series that I’m too damn old for. (Harry Potter, Twilight) While…
I was going to post information about my presentation at WIPIP, but Rebecca Tushnet’s liveblogging summary has beat me to it. So read her summary,…
The Center for Social Media has posted their Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (16 page PDF Report). This Report is…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU] This video of Kermit the Frog singing plaintively (about his love for Miss Piggy?) has been making the rounds for at a while and…