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Will your big-screen Super Bowl party violate copyright law?
Nate Anderson of Ars Technica relates a timely example of just how absurd and outrageous the concept of copyright has gotten. An offhand comment the other day by a friend caught my attention—”Did you...
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“Piracy” Is the Result of Market Failures
Publishers of digital media, be it music, movies, or software, have long argued that it’s a legal and moral problem. The reasons, they claim, that unauthorized copies (I refuse to call them illegal or...
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Corporate Entitlements: Music Edition
Well sorry to all for the two-week absence, but I’m back from being on the road and all the end-of-semester stuff the school requires. There’s a myth that’s pushed and carefully nurtured by corporate...
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Mitt Romney Says Corporations Are People. Frankenstein Was A Person, Too.
From the Brian McFadden in the New York Times:
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Oligopoly and the Costs of Higher Education – Journals Edition
There are many reasons why costs in higher education have been rising faster than inflation for many decades. A fundamental reason is because education is so labor-intensive and (so far) has been...
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