On Friedrich and Britney, part II

Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | 2 Comments »

How does the art of which Nietzsche writes reveal the existence of something beyond foreground, the existence of texture? For that we must leave Freddy N for a moment and read a Briton who was somewhere on the continent ...

On Friedrich and Britney, Part I

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Humanities | No Comments »

Let's leave law for a few days... “Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and ...

Copyfight: it’s about use

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

Why does the history matter? From Stationers to Sony, it’s about use. In this discussion about the Canadian Copyright Reform Bill, we are really discussing several legal ideas, which though often conflated are subtly different. History demonstrates this conflation through the ...

Copyfight: the roots of the conflict

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

Here's the irony of the thing: Our copyright regime, in Canada, is rooted in Crown monopoly in the 16th century - a monopoly created by charter to ease the Crown's ability to censor published materials and prevent sedition. ...

Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of Copyfight!

Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 2 Comments »

Not discussing the latest Canadian copyright reform bill, or the Canadian DMCA as it has been touted, to kick off weblawg.net would be like Han Solo ignoring his friend in need barreling down the trench of a moon-sized space station. Discussing ...