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The Digital World Reviving Old News
Today in class, we briefly discussed how the BCTV footage of the 1994 Stanley Cup riots is available on YouTube, and how the digital age has a memory that seems to predate the (widespread) digital age. There was an even more amazing example of that memory which came out just today. The handwritten notes of Dr. Alan Turing — the […]
“We want privacy, but we can’t stop sharing”
Here is a link to Lawrence Lessig’s video interview with Edward Snowden. It may become relevant to our discussions of privacy/lack of privacy and its potential chilling effects on digital creativity, expression, and even the process of gaining/accessing knowledge through the Internet as a medium. A New York Times article entitled “We Want Privacy, But […]
Class 3 & 4 Slides; January 20 & 27, 2015
Have done a remix of our last two sets of class slides to make them flow into the single set they were always intended to be 😉 jon
News of the Week Top 5; January 28, 2015
1. 4 Ways Copyright Law Actually Controls Your Whole Digital Life 2. Canadian spy ops targeted global file-sharing services, drowned in Glee episodes: Canada’s version of the NSA targeted RapidShare, MegaUpload, and SendSpace. 3. College Claims Copyright On 16th Century Michelangelo Sculpture, Blocks 3D Printing Files 4. Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music […]
The Super Bowl, and What is Legal
This article by Sherwin Siy is an amusing piece looking at the NFL’s copyright warnings, in light of “The Big Game” today. You may not make comments on this post I’ve written without my explicit consent. …which you can only get by giving me a cookie. And it better be oatmeal raisin (the best cookie), not that […]