Kembrew McLeod & PeterDiCola’s recent book, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling is a truly excellent overview of the complicated aspects of…
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…
Want to read a book that talks about both the spread of STDs and what unwitting problems programmers can add to a MMPORG?And the influence…
[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…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPpRnzO9Aw] 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,…
Once again, there may be another Gidget remake — the type that stars Miley Cyrus or other starlets of her ilk in a “fun on…
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future…
The paradox is to wield Che in an attack on [capitalism], its critics must participate in it. They engage in the act of consuming Che….
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…