Ray and Charles Working on a Conceptual Model for the Exhibition Mathematica, 1960, photograph. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (A-22a). Click here to see original image. “Certainly the cost of living has increased, but the cost of everything else has likewise increased,”[1] H.G. Burt, the President of the Union Pacific Railroad, asserted to […]
A “pay it back tax” on data brokers: a modest (and also politically untenable and impossibly naïve) policy proposal
I’ve just returned from the “Social, Cultural, and Ethical Dimensions of Big Data” event, held by the Data & Society Initiative (led by danah boyd), and spurred by the efforts of the White House Office of Technology and Policy to develop a comprehensive report on issues of privacy, discrimination, and rights around big data. And […]
Twitch Plays Pokemon: Questioning Intellectual Property, Creativity and the Public Performance of Play
As a bookend to the podcast that T.L. Taylor and Greg Lastowka were kind enough to participate in, I’m posting this bit of thinking on the legal issues that continue to plague those of us thinking about cultural production in the digital age. It’s also a bit of an emerging dialogue. See Greg […]
Podcast: TL Taylor and Greg Lastowka on Video Games, User Generated Content and Regulatory Regimes
In this episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast, MIT’s TL Taylor and Rutgers Law School’a Greg Lastowka share their insights into emergent video game culture practices that may run aground on copyright law. Greg talks about his recent NSF funded work surveying user generated content (UGC) in video games and TL discusses emergent video gameplay […]
Announcement: Hector Postigo at Virginia Tech – Plenary Panel on Intellectual Property and the Digital Age
This week Culture Digitally’s Hector Postigo will speak as part of the Plenary Panel for the Choices and Challenges Forum on Intellectual Property in the Digital Age hosted at Virginia Tech on February 27th. He’ll discuss copyright law, cultural production and digital technology with Karin Temple Claggett, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Policy and […]