But they are indifferent to the point of depravity to the totalitarian, censorious and restrictive consequences of DRM, filters and liability.
They aren't moustache-twirling supervillains. They're greedy, blinkered provincials and hypercompetitive macho bullies who are unwilling to look past the short-term benefits to the consequences. They think only of how things will work, not how they'll fail.
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Big Content's depraved indifference - Boing Boing - 0 views
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But they're a distant second to a rearchitecting of our law and technology to create the preconditions for repression, corruption and suppression of dissent.
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Or will we allow a small gang of selfish and short-sighted entertainment companies to fatally compromise the infrastructure of the 21st century to add a few points to its bottom line?
Derivative By Any Other Name; or, A Cultural Approach to Fan Fiction Genre Theory | Ant... - 0 views
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I’d suggest that fan fiction exists within a fan community for its creation, distribution, and reception.
Calvin Trillin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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Andrew McKevitt
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On top of that, I think there's an ethnocentrism (for lack of a better word) at play here. Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants have recounted watching untranslated, unsubtitled, unedited anime on local-access Japanese community TV stations in LA from the early 1970s on, and their ability to access and understand this "foreign" cultural product could serve as an "in" with non-Japanese SF fan communities. It seems that Japanese in the United States are often written out of the stories of Japanese cultural transmission to this country. (I think it was Calvin Trilling who argued that, in fact, that's one reason why sushi is so appealing-- Americans don't identify it with physical Japanese bodies, like they do "lesser" cuisines such as Chinese and Mexican.) Just another example that might show that this process was more diffuse than Leonard or Fred Patten have represented.
Titus Hjelm - From Demonic to Genetic: The Rise and Fall of Religion in Vampire Film - 0 views
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Basically my thesis is that in recent vampire fiction (both film and books) the vampire has undergone a change from a religious figure into a scientifically defined villain. In other words, whereas the crucifix used to be the best weapon against Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, the likes of Wesley Snipes and Kate Beckinsale are more concerned about biological weapons used against them. These are what I call the ‘old paradigm’ and ‘new paradigm’ celluloid vampires, respectively.
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In contrast, the modern vampires are represented explicitly as an outcome of a gene mutation. Their main motivation is not to spread ‘evil’ in itself, but to survive, and for some, to rule humans. Therefore, it is not a question of satanic vampires vs. good Christians, but a question of racial supremacy. Finally, as I mentioned above, the new films often employ metafiction in reference to religious symbolism, saying that unlike popular culture teaches us, ‘crosses don’t do squat.’
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I think the first rule of cultural analysis is not to read too much meaning into the text itself, so answering that question is notoriously difficult. One plausible thesis would be that religious symbols have lost at least some of the common resonance ground they once had, therefore making the religious, ‘old paradigm’ vampire somewhat obsolete in contemporary culture. On the other hand, the need for ‘enchantment’ has not disappeared, now we’re just enchanted by the possibilities of science gone awry rather than religious evil.
Kotaku and "Infection vs. Resurrection: The New Science of the Zombie" - 0 views
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changing explanation for the reasons why these undead creatures come back from the dead as it chronicles a shift from supernatural to more “natural” and scientific explanations.
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explanatory shift in zombie causality which reflects changing cultural dynamics in relation to religion, technology, and potentially apocalyptic anxieties
Behavioral economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance are closely related fields making up a separate branch of economic and financial analysis using social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the economic decisions of consumers, borrowers and investors, and their effects on market prices, returns and the allocation of resources.
The right of making available - 0 views
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The concept of open source, as with intellectual property generally, is based on the fact that my possession of a copy of a program doesn't interfere with your possession of a copy of the same program.
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The general term for that is "nonrivalrous,"
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Who is supposed to be doing the open sourcing here? For those of us who aren't Cylons, there aren't many copies. Bodies are rivalrous
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WTO | intellectual property (TRIPS) - agreement text - enforcement - 0 views
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Article 51 Suspension of Release by Customs Authorities
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Members shall, in conformity with the provisions set out below, adopt procedures (13) to enable a right holder, who has valid grounds for suspecting that the importation of counterfeit trademark or pirated copyright goods (14) may take place, to lodge an application in writing with competent authorities, administrative or judicial, for the suspension by the customs authorities of the release into free circulation of such goods. Members may enable such an application to be made in respect of goods which involve other infringements of intellectual property rights, provided that the requirements of this Section are met.
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Members may exclude from the application of the above provisions small quantities of goods of a non-commercial nature contained in travellers’ personal luggage or sent in small consignments.
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Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Bela Lugosi's Undead - 0 views
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r. That's a reminder that "permission culture" isn't just recent, it's really recent. Even if you're not Joyce Carol Oates, writing fiction about public figures is okay.
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This post from Publisher's Weekly puts a particular trend in fantasy (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter; et innumerable cetera) in context. The author predicts that the 70-year lag between death and fictionalization she identifies will collapse on freedom of speech grounds
「女性の著作権を考える会」 - 0 views
2008オタク産業白書（目次） | 出版物のご案内 | メディアクリエイト - 0 views
2007年のオタク市場規模は1,866億円、ライトオタク増加により市場拡大 - 0 views
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