Yesterday’s announcement of new copyright legislation in Canada was met with the expected array of complaints from complainers, aka bloggers, slackers, n’er-do-wells, social deviants, hipsters, and cultural parasites. They received the news as an affront to their supposed “freedom” to exchange intellectual and aesthetic work and reshape existing artifacts into new “creations.” The dispute comes [...]
copyright
(via Lefsetz) I wouldn’t even be surprised if this song exists in a dozen other lower profile places — it’s got the kind of tune that any decent melodist has probably whistled, at least, but maybe didn’t quite like any of the structures that fit around it, or maybe they didn’t think it was outstanding or original enough. And the [...]
Contrasting the Perpendicular with the Backwards
by OpenConceptual on 07-05-2009
in commentary,resources
David Warsh at Economic Principals has a very complimentary piece this week about Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View: Economist’s View is a lightly-edited aggregation of items from around the Web – newspaper columns and blog posts mostly, plus the occasional podcast or video, continually updated throughout the day and augmented periodically by Thoma’s own commentary, all [...]
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