The Dan Brown court case
From the Guardian:A high court judge today rejected claims that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code breached the copyright of an earlier book.Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued...
View ArticleNew RIAA Rules Will Shut Down Pandora
As being widely reported, higher fees for online music imposed by the RIAA may force Pandora.com to close down. Pandora.com is my favorite Internet radio site, and it can't be any better for other...
View ArticleThe Facebook Freakout
So people are freaking out about Facebook thanks to this story on The Consumerist. I'm curious about it because the whole thing just, well, seems ridiculous. For one thing, I continue to find it...
View ArticleHow Not To Write Corporate Communication: An Object Lesson In Obfuscation
So Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman has heard the Twitter-patter on his window of the rain of Facebook subscribers deleting their accounts in droves following an exercise in crappy journalism that it...
View ArticleThe Magician, The Priest, The Conjurer & The Lawyer: Law, Mysticism, Magic,...
I begin with my own personal definition of magic: magic is the explanation of last resort. I am, among other things, an amateur magician; or to put it another way, don't play cards with me for money. I...
View ArticleDispatches From Occupied Tucson: Week 1
So I'd been meaning to write something about Occupy Tucson for a little while now, and the hope was that I could blog some about it on a day by day basis. Turns out that hasn't really been possible....
View ArticleEverything Old is New Again
Consider: If an author has among his writings a musical composition, the only possible way of “securing” to him the “exclusive right” thereto is by giving him the monopoly of this musical composition,...
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