Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift, has a wonderful essay entitled Frames from the Framers: How America’s Revolutionaries Imagined Intellectual Property about the differing perspectives on copyright present during the drafting of the US Constitution. I have written of historical perspectives on copyright before, but Hyde outlines 3 different frames in which creative works and [...]
A photo I took in the halls of UMass Boston was featured in a Wired Magazine (well, on the website) in “Universal ‘Death Stench’ Repels Bugs of All Types”. Image: Flickr/bensheldon. Note: This photo was chosen from a disturbingly large volume of dead cockroach images on Flickr. There is a tiny bit of controversy though: [...]
I assume I’m not the only person making this connection, but it’s interesting how successful the entertainment industry (and anyone with an intellectual-property axe to grind) has been in making this rhetoric commonly accepted: Ludvig Werner, the boss of IFPI’s local Swedish chapter, had a somewhat different perspective: The Pirate Bay is about keeping money [...]
I’ve had these notes kicking around my desktop for a few weeks and just got around to typing them up into a cohesive post. Drop Zone trailer I’ve an avid participant of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series. On February 27, author Matthew Pearl gave a great talk on copyright in the nineteenth [...]
