Fantastic little short about “When Copyright Goes Bad”.
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Incredible talk given by copyright activist/lawyer, Larry Lessig, creator of Creative Commons; entitled “It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.” It’s an hour long, but totally worth it.
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It’s been a while, and now is a good time… (Some of these have been sitting in my inbox for quite some time and are old, but cool, none-the-less.)
- Typographica’s list of its Favorite Typefaces of 2008.
- Computer program to compete against human “Jeopardy!” contestants.
- Stripped down aesthetic at the Milan Furniture Fair.
- These birds like to move it, move it!
- Bklyn Designs draw attention to the design scene in Brooklyn.
- A video on The Secret History of Fonts.
- Written by a cosmologist, and he explains the rules of time travel, if it might exist.
- NYtimes look at the history of The Guggenheim, as it turns 50.
- Finds at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
- Reveiw of Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous (with involvement from David Lynch), ‘Dark Night Of The Soul’.
- New Yorker cover drawn on iPhone Application.
- Coke is the official drink at the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
- ‘Take Five’ also turned 50.
- Video of Banksy’s recent Bristol exhibition.
- New York’s section of “Where’s Cool?’.
- John Hodgman: I Hear They’re Going to Make Evolution Legal.
- Statue Of Liberty’s Crown has reopened.
- Patents may be harming our ability to innovate. (Great addition to my post about copyright law!)
- Spellcheck This: Microsoft Office 2010, The Movie.
- Wired’s article about New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans, with very bad advice from Brad Pitt.
- The ultimate in hipster slummin’ it: dumpster pools.
- Mural by Brazilian graffiti artists, Os Gêmeos, on Houston and Bowery, that Dad really enjoyed last time they were in town.
- Spelling bee for grown-ups.
- Inside the Cafe at Facebook Headquarters.
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I’ve been reading and watching a lot on copyright laws recently and it is utterly fascinating.
Probably the best movie I’ve seen so far is the documentary, RiP! A Remix Manifesto. The director, Brett Gaylor, not only made a great piece on the stifling effect copyright law has on creativity in this country, but he also started Open Source, which encourages remixing and expanding upon videos. The below video is footage of Girl Talk from the film that was remixed.

Good Copy, Bad Copy‘s another good movie to watch.

Also, be sure to visit the Creative Commons site.

And thanks to Drew for sending me an essay by Cory Doctorow entitled Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Cory appears in “RiP!” and is co-editor over at Boing Boing. I’m super excited to start reading that.

For a movie on how overaggressive “ownership” damages the realm of food and genetics check out The Future of Food (Official Site).

Remix and rejoice!

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I’m honestly not sure how I feel about the whole possible lawsuit against Shepard Fairey’s poster (which turns out, now, that he’s filing a lawsuit against them), but it’s interesting to hear other designers discuss the drama. Designer of the incredibly famous “I ♥ NY” logo, Milton Glaser, gave his opinion:

For myself—this is subjective—I find the relationship between Fairey’s work and his sources discomforting. Nothing substantial has been added. In my own case, when I did the Dylan poster, I acknowledged using Duchamp’s profile as an influence. I think unless you’re modifying it and making it your own, you’re on very tenuous ground. It’s a dangerous example for students, if they see that appropriating people’s work is the path to success. Simply reproducing the work of others robs you of your imagination and form-making abilities. You’re not developing the muscularity you need to invent your own ideas.

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