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Reads tagged with “copyright”

1,000 Dog Portraits: How a David-vs-Goliath Copyright Nightmare Became an Illustrated Celebration of the Canine Condition
1,000 Dog Portraits: How a David-vs-Goliath Copyright Nightmare Became an Illustrated Celebration of the Canine Condition

The art of making creative lemonade out of legal lemons.

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BBC’s The Beauty of Maps
BBC’s The Beauty of Maps

What cartographic creativity has to do with the limitations of copyright law.

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Street Art: From All Sides & Five Continents
Street Art: From All Sides & Five Continents

The urban anthropology of creativity, or why copyright law is a sad case study in swimming against the cultural current.

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Down With The Man | Part 7
Down With The Man | Part 7

How to do peer-to-peer sharing without entering Jesse James territory. Welcome to the Down With The Man issue: Part 7.

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Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do
Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do

What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.

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Everything is a Remix
Everything is a Remix

From hip-hop to Hitler in the bunker, or why skilllessness is no obstacle to creativity.

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Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer
Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer

Why the if-I-can’t-have-it-you-can’t-have-it mentality produces nothing but a generous serving of loser.

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