Tulane Works in Progress Intellectual Property Conference: My Presentation on Political Economy and Intellectual Property of User-Created Content

I attended a very interesting lecture “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai. While…

Arguably, Obama is the first nerd president. (Considering that Thomas Jefferson’s books were the basis of the Library of Congress, my vote is for second…

The New York Times recently had an article about the recent makeovers of some of your favorite (and least) favorite 80s icons, including Strawberry Shortcake….

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…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxn567bHny8] I come neither to bury Barbie nor to praise her, but to acknowledge her larger cultural role, after turning fifty this year. And she…

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…

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…

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…

If you are trapped in the modality of “you are such a sell-out!” then two of the biggest YouTube success stories, Chocolate Rain and OK…

Works by the U.S. government are in the public domain* — but are they truly available to the public? Some publishers have managed to lock…

I am really enjoying Nine Inch Nails The Slip thus far. This morning the full-length album was made available free of charge on the NIN.com,…

I was pretty excited to learn of the Fan History wiki. It’s a fantastic idea, since cultural studies scholars have made it their business to…

So what possibly could romance novels featuring awkwardly-smooth-talking fictional Native Americans, plagiary, fans, and black-footed ferrets have in common? One bizarre detective story by a…

So by now, Nine Inch Nails decision to dump its (his?) record label has been well publicized. Trent Reznor has been a pretty vocal opponent…

I’ve been reading several interesting books on both the cultural and economic significance of Japanese popular culture, ranging from a general overview, to the business…