Ars Technica: Is Lessig’s Free Culture just another Das Kopyright?

Yeah, no.

Sivacracy: Ben Stein and anti-science producers misunderstand copyright and evolution.

Misunderstand being a very, very generous way of putting it.

Public Knowledge has a great discussion of the copyright challenges facing musicians today given the begged, borrowed, and stolen traditions of many musical genres, like African-American folk/blues music.

Ars Technica: Big Content in worldwide “whisper campaign” against Fair Use.

The Section 108 study group report.

Ars Technica: Virgin Mobile might be hopping on the “Copyright Enforcement Express.” And, for some reason, Samuel L. Jackson might be driving the muthafuckin’ train.

I can’t wait to see the first YouTube attempt at what Mr. Jackson’s anti-piracy commercial might look like. I suggest a reworking of the “Google Maps is Scary” video, only with Sammy J. showing up at the offenders’ door with one of those electric rope things from Jumper.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope.

It’s Superman’s AMAZING copyright reversion! [via]

It’s nice to be reminded that there are real heroes in the world, Judge Larson.

They already name stadiums and buildings, monopolize student unions, and pervade almost all other non-academic aspects of university life in America. But should corporate interests be sponsoring our classes?

Hunter College thinks maybe they should. [via]

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Big pot calls little kettle “plagiarist”: Hillary Clinton and copyright. [via]

Technology has gone this way; copyright law has gone that way. Since, most of the time, this puts the two in completely disparate universes, here’s Public Knowledge’s six-point program for copyright reform.

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