May 2007
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A Fair(y) Use Tale
Copyright has never been more relevant as it is today, as per the above Fair(y) Use Tale. In 2001, along with a slew of notable lawyers and academics, web publisher Eric Eldred and Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig established Creative Commons. As a new organization, the group developed a web application that helped individuals dedicate their creative work to the public domain. As a...
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Makers: Creation & Intelligent Design
In 2003, pregnant journalist Carla Sinclair, author of Net Chick, and her husband Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Wired Online and co-founder of today’s most linked-to blog in the universe BoingBoing, took flight to Rarotonga with dreams of a peaceful oasis in which to emerge from a writing rut. Carla and Mark’s mixed review of living off the grid entitled Island Chronicles was published regularly...
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Obama 2.0: Myspace is My Space
According to a recent Mercury News article, Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken control of a MySpace page listed under his name. The site originated with Los Angeles paralegal Joe Anthony who has acted as moderator for 2.5 years. According to the Mercury article, “At first, that arrangement was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content, promoted...