[contextly_auto_sidebar id="ywu4fbbeaZ4xnIPum8dfcpIbDyG5zWSP"] ONE of the clearest and most powerful descriptions I've seen about the place where technology, culture and economic forces meet is in a lecture USC's Jonathan Taplin gave not long ago. He's transposed the speech into a piece for Medium called "Sleeping Through a Revolution." Taplin is especially good on the big picture, and on … [Read more...]
David Lowery: The Internet is a Cargo Cult
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="6UAzCSm7AdyfFjCMRPoo70IpwVaaVVHl"] TODAY your humble blogger speaks to the musicians' rights advocate and gets into some new territory -- not just the way music streaming hurts artists, but the US government's complicity in the current mess, the feckless Department of Justice, and the irrational way people view the Internet in general. Here's Lowery in my Salon … [Read more...]
The “Antifree” Movement Takes on “Free”
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="hMpJwAX7ROFisoxfaiwhWpOQbmzRcRS5"] BY now, we're all pretty familiar with the information-wants-to-be-free argument, and if you write for a living, or have had to endure numerous unpaid internships to break into a creative field, you know it all too well. A wide-ranging, perceptive, and slightly arch essay in the hip Brooklyn journal n+1 sketches out the … [Read more...]
Photography on the Web: Getty Images Goes Free
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="wKTuBaBs4g6nEeAQFph8OgG0XKZQVL7g"] THE state of photographs and other images on the Web is fraught and confusing, and seems destined to become more of both with time. Vague tensions turn into lawsuits; the "free" crowd, sometime with tech-corporation lobbying, goes up against Hollywood lawyers, and on and on. I must admit, as someone who respects the need for … [Read more...]