O/A-related article about a German teen who freely admits to copying from other books when writing her critically acclaimed book. She likens it to the remixing that DJ's do all the time. Her book was nominated for a book award even after the jury members found out about the accusations of plagiarism.
Games such as the hugely-popular fantasy World of Warcraft (WoW) as well as plenty of first-person shooters have spawned numerous pirated worlds.
They are typically run by amateurs and allow gamers to assume powers unavailable in the commercial form of the game. Crucially, players rarely pay a subscription fee for the privilege of entering the world - unlike retail versions.
Fascinating article that discusses the democratizing of mapping neighborhoods, cities, etc. The same tensions arise as in Wikipedia - can an amateur efforts produce results that are on par with professionals? There's also an interesting discussion about tensions that arise when mapping disputed areas, like Kashmir.
Now, thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare...leading some school officials to raise questions over who owns material developed for public school classrooms.
Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine created in a garage in 1998 to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. He asks: "Do you trust Google? Do you want to store that information with a company? Will they guard your secrets, or will they share them with advertisers or with someone else?"
Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese works into an electronic database in violation of international copyright standards. The organizations are urging China’s authors to step forward & defend their rights. Google’s ambitions to digitize millions of books, in most cases without first seeking permission from publishers or authors, has been contentious in the US...
A friend watched me play recently and asked, “Can you buy these mixes off iTunes?” You cannot, but I can foresee people playing the mixes from DJ Hero into digital recorders and then listening to them and playing them for friends without the game itself.
I’m not sure if that would be legal. But I am sure that there is almost no chance your local weekend spinner can create anything nearly as tight and funky as the mixes in DJ Hero.
Evolving digital technology has provided a steady aid for people in their quest to remember virtually everything. Social networking sites remind you of friends' birthdays, digital calendars send you reminders, and photos posted online preserve memories indefinitely.
But Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, argues that now is the time to reintroduce our ability to forget. The indelible digital memory can be as unforgiving as it is helpful. Mayer-Shonberger suggests an expiration date for information.
Today's plagiarists grew up believing they had a right to steal music through Napster and paste other people's photographs and private information into their own blogs. Appropriating other people's ideas seems an established cultural norm.
The French National Assembly has passed a draft law that would allow illegal downloaders to be thrown off the net. The proposed legislation operates under a "three strikes" system. A new state agency would first send illegal file-sharers a warning e-mail, then a letter and finally cut off their connection if they were caught a third time.
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O/A-related article about a German teen who freely admits to copying from other books when writing her critically acclaimed book. She likens it to the remixing that DJ's do all the time. Her book was nominated for a book award even after the jury members found out about the accusations of plagiarism.
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