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A Long-Tailed Creative Yawp

February 9, 2006 – 3:17 pm

(Note: This is a long one.) Reading “The slow decline of the blockbuster” on Ars Technica reminds me that this Long Tail stuff is something on which I’ve been wanting to write something intelligent for a long time now. This might all just be techno-hippy michegas in the end, but I’m really excited about the [...]

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Once More with Cease and Desist Letters

October 20, 2005 – 11:52 am

Fox has shut down a plan to perform a fan version of the Buffy musical episode, Once More with Feeling, even though creator Joss Whedon has asked them not to. Source: Boing Boing: Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests Hey, look, it’s another attempt to stop the natural progression of released creative work turning [...]

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Urban Birdsong: Copyright and Cores of Culture

October 10, 2005 – 8:34 pm

Mass media has done such a good job at embedding their copyright into culture that it has become culture itself. Source: apophenia: when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues I’ve been meaning to write something about just this notion for awhile now, but haven’t felt like I had anything good to say. But this is why [...]

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