I’ve always enjoyed Christmas shopping. Most years, I’ve done a combination of online and offline shopping, buying items from favorite sites such as amazon.com and etsy, and stores in my neighborhood. Last year, I even did Black Friday shopping, trying the tradition of getting up at 4 am (it was fun for a couple hours, […]
Tonight I attended a Creative Commons forum featuring Larry Lessig, founder; Joi Ito, CEO; Jamie Boyle, Board Chair; and Molly S. Van Houweling, Board Member and former Exec. Director. I was fortunate enough to hear the story of CC’s start – how it went from counter-copyright to copyright commons to creative commons, how the different […]
I don’t make a habit of defending crimes of either child pornography or copyright infringement, but in this particular instance, I’m speaking up… An Australian man has been convicted of possessing child pornography and of accessing child pornography on his computer and fined AUS$3,000. “Why the small penalty?”, you might be asking. “Why is this […]