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Nintendo and We Play videos
Great interview with Elena Iosef by Amanda Lang about copyright and gameplay: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/youtube-gaming-stars-blindsided-by-nintendo-s-ad-revenue-grab-1.3010550
This week in law – 297
Great discussion this week on TWIN, especially about copyright, moral rights, and the impact on cultural ‘raw materials’ for creators. http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-law/297
Legal Podcast on UGC
For those of you who haven’t heard of This Week in Law, its a really interesting american legal podcast about technology. This episode seemed particularly relevant to our discussions of […]
Utilitarian Justifications at the Grammys
Recording Academy president Neil Portnow used the Grammys as an opportunity to highlight the importance of copyright protection, using a argument you might recognize as utilitarian: “What if we’re all watching the […]
Results of Paper Airplane Study
Class presentation from last week, including results of our in-class exercise. For those of you who missed it, this was the class we made paper airplanes. Empirical Exercise in Philosophical […]
This American Life – Online Trolling as a Limit on Expression
Interesting piece referred to in class today, about a blogger and how she was impacted by online trolls. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps?act=1#play
Feb. 3 Student Presentation Matierials
For the class presentation on Tuesday, we will be examining the philosophical underpinnings of IP law, and their relation to creativity and creation. The brief assigned reading below is a […]