February 08, 2007

Vaikutteiden huumassa

Body Modification Mark II -konferenssi järjestetään huhtikuussa Sydneyssä.

TransVision 2007 -konferenssi järjestetään heinäkuussa Chigagossa.

Kolmas SENS-konferenssi järjestetään Cambridgessa syyskuussa.

Atoms function as light-trappers and transporters
"The first time I read this paper, I didn't believe it," says Michael Fleischhauer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. "Even though theory tells us it should be possible, actually doing it is something else."

Last Wear - Tyylikkäitä vaatteita.
Urban Tool - Tyylikkäitä kantamusvarusteita.


Thinking clearly sometimes requires unbraiding our language. The word “copyright” may eventually seem as dubious in its embedded purposes as “family values,” “globalization,” and, sure, “intellectual property.” Copyright is a “right” in no absolute sense; it is a government-granted monopoly on the use of creative results. So let's try calling it that — not a right but a monopoly on use, a “usemonopoly” — and then consider how the rapacious expansion of monopoly rights has always been counter to the public interest, no matter if it is Andrew Carnegie controlling the price of steel or Walt Disney managing the fate of his mouse. Whether the monopolizing beneficiary is a living artist or some artist's heirs or some corporation's shareholders, the loser is the community, including living artists who might make splendid use of a healthy public domain.
- Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence

Posted by kaksoisagentti at February 8, 2007 10:44 AM
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