The Hollywood Reporter announced today plans for a TV pilot based on the “Honey Badger Don’t Care” meme that cracked all of us up momentarily…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-cU4S4lDH0] When is something a quotation or a reference and when is it a sample that needs to be licensed? According to a recent Sixth…
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…
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…
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…