Creative Models & Community Constraints

Constraints Made Google and Mick Jagger Great–and They’ll Make You a Better Entrepreneur

Constraints Made Google and Mick Jagger Great–and They’ll Make You a Better Entrepreneur

Here is another piece that glorifies constraints – this time in an entrepreneurial rather than creative context. In doing so it arguably provides a clue as to what lies behind this S&M like lust for handcuffs. Read closely and you may see that it comes down to ego and the illusion of being special. In […]

Top 10 Internet Law Developments Of 2014

Top 10 Internet Law Developments Of 2014

Here is a terrifically useful article by Professor Eric Goldman of Santa Clara Law called the “Top 10 Internet Law Developments Of 2014”. It is potentially a wonderful source of inspiration for seminar or paper topics. Here is the link: Top 10 Internet Law Developments Of 2014. jon

Charlie Hebdo Tragedy

Charlie Hebdo Tragedy

In the syllabus and in last weeks introduction to the course I suggested a living lab model of learning might serve this course rather well. The notion behind that thought was that so much is happening in the world in relation to law and media, that bringing that into class every week would ground us in relevance. […]

The Messy Minds of Creative People | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network

The Messy Minds of Creative People | Beautiful Minds, Scientific American Blog Network

One of themes that seems very likely to emerge during this course is the relationship between the nature of creativity and the legal (and extra-legal) constraints on creativity. The issue, put as plainly as can be, is whether the laws and norms which serve to limit creativity should be aligned with the nature of creativity […]