Archive for February, 2007
I violated the copyright law.
Last Saturday was my Grandson’s first birthday. He seems to have a budding interest in superheros who can fly through the air, so we hosted a Superm** party for him and 7 of his young friends. In order to make this a memorable event (Ok, memories in the parents, probably not the [...]
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The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
The idea that culture can be property—intellectual property—is used to justify everything from attempts to force the Girl Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. Corporations like Celera [...]
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