I’m a huge William Faulkner fan. His novel The Sound and the Fury had a huge impact on my reading habits when I entered high school. The shifts in form and style resonated with me even if it took a…
Remember that terrible Brandon X situation I wrote about last year? An American man, crossing the border into Canada, was charged with child pornography for having manga images on his computer. Though the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund could not…
I write here not to question the validity of the United States Olympic Committee’s trademark of the term “Olympics” or variants thereof. The US court system decided years ago that they are allowed to hold a trademark on a term…
There must be something in the air. In the past month, we’ve created sci-zombies by way of a terrible new drug craze. We’ve started a discussion about a sci-fi movie that will never end because it refuses to answer any…
I’ll be the first to admit that there are problems with existing Intellectual Property Right Laws–from here IPR laws. They’re long, they’re confusing, they’re weighed heavily in favor of big corporate interests, they’re not enforced often enough, and they’re so…
Sure took them a long time, didn’t it? After the story of Tori LaConsay’s fight against H&M blatantly stealing her artwork broke, social media blew up. People were blogging it, tweeting it, and assaulting the H&M Facebook page with anything…
Just because something is on the Internet does not mean it is free to use. That’s a lesson clothing company H&M is being forced to learn this week. Regretsy is becoming a source for all the news you need to…
Regretsy, one of my favorite humor sites, might win the award for best Anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign for the scheduled 18 January blackout protests. An exaggeration of the SOPA/PIPA legislation? Barely. And that’s the scary part about this proposed legislation to censor…