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- Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era
- Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution
- On Virtual Travel
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- Laws for the Virtual Universe
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- Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him
- Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?
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Category Archives: Communications
Hulu and the NHL, follow-up
In response to a comment received putting succinctly Mr. Bettman’s effect on the NHL, I would like to present two screen captures comparing the customer relations aspects of licensing issue manifestations. We have the new South Park Studios web site, … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged Gary Bettman, hulu, licensing, nhl, rebroadcast, South Park, webcast
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Hulu and the NHL
Michael Geist pointed out that the NHL webcast on Hulu.com is blocked to Canadians. It was pointed out in the comments that it seems blocked to other non-Americans as well. I added my $0.02 (i.e. this is my comment on … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged circumvention, hulu, licensing, nhl, rebroadcast, webcast
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Joomla! Demo Camp Notes
Just thought I would cross-post them. They are at Tazzu as well. For those who don’t remember, I was at the Vancouver Joomla! Demo Camp last month, and posted directly from there. My notes are in point form. Click below … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology
Tagged Joomla, Joomla DemoCamp, Tazzu, web design
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Joomla Demo Camp – Vancouver
I am spending this evening at the Joomla! Demo Camp at The Network Hub in downtown Vancouver. Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) that makes creating sophisticated websites with dense, extensive, and/or media rich content as easy as … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology
Tagged CMS, Content Management, Joomla, Joomla DemoCamp, Tazzu
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Net Neutrality and New Media Regulation
Today I’m going to look at the inevitable intersection of ‘Net neutrality and new media regulation. The populist position – one with which I concur – is to want ‘Net neutrality, and not to want new media over-regulation (and in … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology
Tagged content regulation, crtc, net neutrality, new media
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On Friedrich and Britney, part III
When we left off with “On Friedrich and Britney, part II”, we asked a question about the connection between Nietzsche’s statement, “Without art we would be nothing but foreground,” and Shelley’s, “poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration”. The … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Humanities
Tagged art, nietzsche, pop culture, shelley, truth
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The Hacker Crackdown – a podcast
Cory Doctorow has read aloud Bruce Sterling‘s book, The Hacker Crackdown. He has created a podcast of the whole thing. Follow the link below: Cory Doctorow’s announcement on Boing Boing of the podcast of The Hacker Crackdown. For those of … Continue reading
On Friedrich and Britney, part II
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 some … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Humanities
Tagged art, defense of poesy, nietzsche, pop culture, shelley
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On Friedrich and Britney, Part I
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, … Continue reading
Copyfight: it’s about use
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, copyright reform, DMCA, DRM, reverse onus
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