# iMakeContent > Technology, Media, Society & What the User Does Next ## Posts - ["I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer"](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2026/01/i-dont-think-a-great-book-has-yet-been-written-on-computer/): Writers’ rooms: JG Ballard Distrusting computers, the science fiction writer JG Ballard wrote the first drafts of his novels by hand before finishing them off on a typewriter: “On the desk is my old manual typewriter, which I recently found in my stair cupboard. I was inspired by a letter from Will Self, who wrote […] - [An egg, a spoon and Ursula](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2025/12/ursula-on-the-perfect-egg-spoon/): “I’ve never seen a gold egg spoon, but I’m sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can’t coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is short, for good balance and easy handling. […] - [Outage Africa?](https://imakecontent.net/energy/2012/05/outage-africa-2/): As entrepreneurs spark change, Africa’s electricity future is getting brighter. Women working on solar lighting circuit boards.Photo Credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh With the blessing of global institutions increasingly worried by the prospect of climate change, entrepreneurs are hacking out a small-scale, low-carbon path to universal African electrification. What’s encouraging them is the enthusiasm with which […] - [Cable Commotion](https://imakecontent.net/infrastructure/2012/04/cable-commotion/): As Africa’s rush for broadband connection continues, Steve Song’s map of African undersea cables can’t help but get tangled up:: I am gobstopped again with the announcement of the BRICs cable. I struggle now to find ways to represent all the impending capacity on a single map without it looking like a dog’s breakfast. What […] - [Brain Gain Or Drain?](https://imakecontent.net/place/2011/09/brain-gain-or-drain/): Africa’s got software talent… but for how much longer? What do African techies make of Silicon Valley? What might Silicon Valley make of them? No Prada suits, hoodies or flip flops. No algorithms stolen off dorm room windows. None of that Social Network, San Francisco stuff. Steve Mutinda’s award-winning mobile health app may be designed […] - [Kenya’s Konza Technology City](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2011/05/kenyas-konza-technology-city/): Kenya’s plan for a 5,000-acre “Silicon Savannah” some 30 miles from Nairobi. - [Facebook Misstep? Yeah?](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2011/05/facebook-misstep-yeah/): So Facebook hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google. What you gonna do about it? Get over it, already… although it isn’t right, obviously… MG Siegler on the latest Facebook “slimeball stunt”: Like it or not, Facebook is too integrated into the fabric of the web now for everyone to just walk […] - [Africa's Mobile Future(s)](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2011/05/africas-mobile-futures/): Find out what’s ahead: “Mobile Trends Africa 2020”. - [African Tech Joins Up](https://imakecontent.net/infrastructure/2011/05/african-tech-joins-up/): By developing its developers, Africa’s tech sector hopes to go from ping to kerching. Time was when African software developers didn’t register on Silicon Valley’s radar. No undersea fibre optic cables meant that there wasn’t much of a digital infrastructure in most of sub-Saharan Africa and so accessing and developing its software market was tough […] - [Dawn of African Tech](https://imakecontent.net/place/2011/04/dawn-of-african-tech/): African countries are trying to “cheat history,” as one senior UN official I met put it. Barely literate people in the poorest villages, places where there are no schools and the life expectancy is under 50 due to lack of health infrastructure, use mobile phones to listen to the radio, send money, buy and sell […] - [iPhone Knows](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2011/04/iphone-knows/): Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you’ve been. Pete Warden Apple’s iPhone contains a secret file which keeps track of everywhere you go, say researchers. 110420 Guardian - [We Are Here](https://imakecontent.net/place/2011/03/we-are-here/): Visiting pop stars and politicians made it famous. It featured in the Oscar-winning movie The Constant Gardner. But look at a map and you’ll strain your eyes trying to locate the tin shacks and mud huts of Kibera. Although one of Africa’s more densely populated areas – some 250,000 people crammed into 2.3 sq km […] - [London’s Silicon Valley](https://imakecontent.net/place/2011/02/londons-silicon-valley/): With help from Facebook and Google, David Cameron wants east London to take on Silicon Valley. But his top-down approach misses the point, says Joe White, CEO of London-based web design service Moonfruit: "If we need more grass roots, then large tech corporate sponsors are not the answer. Supporting local entrepreneurs who can inspire and […] - [Mob Rules](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2010/11/mob-rules/): Africa’s mobile phone kiosks: tech hubs set to rival Silicon Valley? In the West, there’s an app for everything. In Africa, so goes the latest business/development mantra, there’s the mobile phone kiosk. The noise around Africa’s diy mobile phone culture sometimes sounds like a faint repeat of the dotcom hype from 1990s San Francisco. However, […] - [Google CEO talks privacy](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2010/07/google-ceo-talks-privacy/): Your privacy online? Who cares about it? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, that’s who: Those concerns are real – I’m not trying to move away from them. The fact of the matter is that if you’re online all the time, computers are generating a lot of information about you. This is not a Google decision, this […] - [Fast Company](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2010/07/fast-company/): With the arrival of broadband, sub-Saharan Africa’s tech entrepreneurs are on the verge of take off. Question is: to where? In Buea, southern Cameroon, the tech boys are pulling an all-nighter. Mambe Nanje Churchill’s fingers go hurtling across the keyboard. With his 20-year-old junior looking on, the 24-year-old self-taught veteran of the local cyber café […] - [Future Perfect](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2009/03/future-perfect/): Zap those economic blues. Seven shiny tech tips from CeBIT 09 The global economic crash getting you down? Take the talking cure. The population of Hanover in northern Germany pretty much doubles once a year when around 500,000 computer and IT industry movers and shakers from all over the world click over to CeBIT, the […] - [Spectacle](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2008/09/spectacle-ars-electronica-2008/): Linz, a sleepy provincial Austrian town? Cuckoo clocks and the sound of music? Where Hitler went to school with Wittgenstein ? Never mind the cobblestones. As the venue for Ars Electronica , one of the biggest digital arts festivals in the world, Linz is heaven for geeks right now, is overclocking with tech-driven spectacle. Back […] - [Guided By Tech](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2008/05/guided-by-tech/): When in Rome, do as the New York Times tells you. A recent travel feature about Rome at Night comes attached with not only the usual multimedia map but an MP3 walking tour as well. Great. Unless you happen to depend on the tourist dollar… Riffing off a recent Wired item enthusing about a crowdsourced […] - [Crossing the Line](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/12/crossing-the-line/): Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert plan to return to TV on 7 January while their writers stay out on strike. Off air for two months, the latte-drinking (probably), liberal-leaning (certainly) presenters, funny men, princes of political satire etc say they would much rather return with their comrade writers — beyond this, words (as […] - [Shooting War](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2007/11/shooting-war/): Just published, graphic novel Shooting War by Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman: it’s 2011 and anti-corporate blogger Jimmy Burns is working as an embed for Global News – ‘Your home for 24-hour terror coverage’ – in President McCain’s Iraq. And boom. The beta online version is available here. . - [Net Costs](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/07/net-costs/): … conned by the numbers from their web departments and aided and abetted by laughably inconsistent web metrics… newspaper owners will strip newspapers of the resources they need to reinvent themselves in order to nurture an internet beast that they believe is a rottweiler puppy but is, in fact, a fully grown poodle. They are […] - [Better creativity through software](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2007/04/better-creativity-through-software/): Check out the pros and cons of Rationale: an argument mapper for Windows. Conclusion? It’s a nifty addition to any journalist/blogger/critical thinker’s software toolbox. Chicken and egg, form and function, structure and agency: when I’m writing, I’m pretty certain that in order to be creative, to make something new, I need an argument, a structure, […] - [Virginia Tech @ The Social Web](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/04/the-social-web-and-the-virginia-tech-shootings/): The public spaces on the internet served as the most important arena for exchange of information on the events yesterday. Almost every news story cited a Facebook or Myspace page or a livejournal entry as a source. The Wikipedia entry and discussion on the event hashed out validity of sources and the semantics of tragedy. […] - [Sign of the Times](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/04/sign-of-the-times/): Spot the change in the new logo at the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE ): Before And After Yep, “newspaper” is so 20th Century. ASNE president Dave Zeeck thinks ASME may eventually drop “newspaper” altogether for something more up to date. – Strupp’s Notebook - [Hello Microsoft, Goodbye](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2007/03/hello-microsoft-goodbye/): Hired by Microsoft to be an “enthusiast evangelist”, to “go out and mingle, bond and touch influential end users and show them all the cool things that Microsoft has to offer”, lifestyle blogger Stephanie Quilao quit after only nine and a half weeks. It wasn’t just that working for Microsoft made her feel like Martha […] - [Viacom Sues YouTube](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/03/viacom-sues-youtube/): YouTube uses its users to steal from the work of honest artists toiling to create original content, says Viacom as it finally sues YouTube for “massive intentional copyright infringement”: YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to […] - [Cookie-Cutter Journalism](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2007/03/cookie-cutter-journalism/): Flip away from the enthusiasms of the Web 2.0/participatory media crowd; the future suddenly loses its shine. In a paper published last year by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, Robert G Picard gives a detailed account of what’s gone wrong with American news journalism: Many of the challenges of news organization today exist because the professionalism of […] - [Manipulating Media](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/02/manipulating-media/): Steve Bryant only buys (into) media he can do stuff with: Media is changing from entertainment into utility. Media that can’t be manipulated is almost useless. When I listen to NPR, I wish I could freeze the broadcast and pull a link from the radio, send it to a friend. When I watch TV, same […] - [Storing Futures](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2007/02/storing-futures/): An iPod can hold roughly 10,000 songs. Increase the storage capacity every 13 years, something the size of an iPod could store one year of video in another few years. By 2015, you could store all the music ever produced. By 2019, you could 85 years of video – a lifetime’s worth of video. By […] - [Class Acts](https://imakecontent.net/place/2007/02/class-acts/): Curious to note that sensitive US indie-rock band Death Cab for Cutie — catch them on Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of the colossal Warner Music Group, catch them on the OC, Fox’s top-rating TV drama about the affluent youth of Orange County, CA — ultimately gets its name from sociologist Richard Hoggart, from The Uses […] - [The Machine is Us/ing Us](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2007/02/the-machine-is-using-us/): Digital ethnographer Michael Wesch ‘s video explains where the web came from, what it is, where it’s taking us: - [Material World](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2007/02/vanishing-point/): Donning an avatar (she plumps for a “grumpy old woman”), Jenny Diski discovers that the online virtual world Second Life is less a chance to restart her life, more a cartoon-shaped replication of the real world: Second Life is a reiteration. It’s a virtual world of buying and selling, profit and consumption, material decoration and […] - [Vista Launches... At Last](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2007/01/vista-launches-at-last/): How come it took Bill Gates five years to revamp his flagship bunch of code? Was it laziness? Procrastination? Perfectionism? Did Bill mislay his copy of Getting Things Done? One straight-forward answer is that in trying to compete against Apple and internet-based companies, in trying to anticipate whatever the future may throw at the PC, […] - [Hail the New Democracy?](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/01/hail-the-new-democracy/): Avoid any easy hype about the potential of the internet to usher in a new age of democracy, warns Jackie Ashley. Murdoch and the better-off are mapping their monopolistic powers over to the new digital medium while the old medium’s powers to question these elites are being sidelined: We should be nervous when politicians start […] - [Journalists, Generalists](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2007/01/why-journalism-matters/): We’ve spent a lot of time, post-Enron, criticizing the flaws in the investment community’s gatekeeping activities. But I think we should also recognize what the Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism. Maybe, in other words, we have underestimated the value of impartial, professionally-motivated, under-paid and overworked generalists in tackling the kind […] - [Carrots, Sticks, Journalism and Nick Denton](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/12/carrots-sticks-journalism-and-nick-denton/): Writers at NYC’s Gawker Media get paid bonuses for the volume of traffic and page views their stories generate, according to bitter and jaded hacks getting drunk in one of the dives on Fifty-second Street uncertain and afraid as the clever hopes expire etc an inside source. In a profile of Gawker boss Nick Denton, […] - [BBC Regroups For A Digital Future](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/11/bbc-regroups-for-a-digital-future/): More convergence at the BBC. Yesterday, its TV and radio departments shut up shop. And were then born again. Following Director-General Mark Thompson’s restructuring plans, the Beeb is regrouping into Vision, Audio & Music, Journalism and Future Media & Technology. – BBC Vision launches with a promise to audiences The BBC needs to be ready […] - [Notes From An Echo Chamber](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2006/11/asides/): Words of wisdom from dotcom entrepreneur, billionaire, Ayn Rand fan etc Mark Cuban: You can find any type of discussion group across the Net that is finite enough to make you a hero. It might just be three people, but in that group, you’re your own David Koresh. And I think that gives people a […] - [Two Cheers For Google](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/09/two-cheers-for-the-google-news-archive/): Yes, Google’s newly launched News Archive Search is a great boon to those lacking subscriptions to super expensive public record/newspaper/academic databases – all the news going back decades that’s unclassified and fit to print – such as LexisNexis and JSTOR. For a few dollars a shot, bloggers can now sample what journalists have become totally […] - [Jumping on the YouTube](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/08/jumping-on-the-youtube/): Video marketeers beware. As Paris Hilton and Tony Blair both get down with the new brand-driven YouTube – yay! the Official Paris Hilton YouTube Channel as well as Tony’s Transformational Government & Leadership Challenge, angry, bored, plain delinquent consumers citizens are sharpening their keyboards: For a long time Governments have been looking around for way […] - [Meta Blog](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2006/06/meta-blog/): A room where bloggers blog about blogging, the Bloggercon conference, San Francisco: The weird thing about live-blogging a conference is that you are multi-tasking on many levels. You are in a room with a laptop on your lap, typing away about what you hear and see. You might snap a digital photo of your fellow […] - [Blogs v Newspapers](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/06/blogs-v-newspapers-again/): Millions of websites will aggregate what we do, syndicate it, link it, comment on it, sneer at it, mash it, trash it, monetise it, praise it and attempt to discredit it – in some cases all at once. But no-one will actually go to the risk and the expense of setting up a global network […] - [Rich Pickings](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/04/rich-pickings/): The motto of the bubble was get big fast. The rule today is get big cheap… What tickles my checkbook is the success of capital-efficient startups where the users themselves often contribute the feature road map, software and marketing. – David Cowan, Bessemer Ventures in Forbes Magazine [The bankrollers] don’t care about your newfound ability […] - [When News Meets PR](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/04/when-news-meets-pr/): From the department of kicking the US mainstream media while it’s already down: it’s not unusual for US TV stations to run corporate product pitches as straight news items, according to a new report by a media watchdog. Over a ten-month period, the Center for Media and Democracy found 77 TV stations guilty of airing […] - [Esprit De Apple Corps](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/03/esprit-de-apple-corps/): More corporate copyright capers. The Royal Courts of Justice in London swung to the sounds of the latest popular beat combos on the opening day of Apple vs. Apple, in which the Beatles’ record label is demanding damages from the computer giant for the alleged scrumping of its apple logo. QC Geoffrey “Loudmouth” Vos, resplendent […] - [Harmful If Swallowed](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/03/harmful-if-swallowed/): Yeah, the Kool-Aid does taste funny. Molly Ivins tears into the assumption that the newspaper business is dying because it isn’t delivering profits. Sure, there’s a steady decline in the industry over the long term. But profits are still happening. What’s killing newspapers is a mania for profits at any cost. Cut reporters and the […] - [Multitasking and the Journalist](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/03/multitasking-and-the-journalist/): A profile of Jon Snow, Channel 4’s chief news anchor, in which he does some “thinking from the mouth” (and nothing about his taste in ties, thank the gimmick editor): As a journalist I think technology where it advances communication is plus, plus. Technology that merely inflects whizzbangs of information I think merely tends to […] - [Booted, Suited and Uploading](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/03/booted-suited-and-uploading/): Viral video enthusiasts using YouTube: potential copyright infringers or corporate shills? YouTube’s DIY video site includes clips “stolen” from big media companies, allege lawyers representing big media companies – the likes of NBC Uni, CBS and ABC. But big media companies, or at least their marketeers, are starting to realise that mashed-up clips represent, forgive […] - [The New Game of Life](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2006/03/the-new-game-of-life/): Fancy joining in a consensual hallucination? Will Wright, creator of the Sims, joins the jostling for supremacy by the different tech and media sectors, their battle for the living room and every other space in which media consumers, producers, participants may soon find themselves. He argues that games have the potential for subsuming almost all […] - [Comic Copyright Capers](https://imakecontent.net/infrastructure/2006/03/comic-copyright-capers/): Great new IP & Fair Use comic by Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain: Bound by Law translates law into plain English and abstract ideas into ‘visual metaphors.’ So the comic’s heroine, Akiko, brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean ‘Rights Monster’ – all the while learning copyright law […] - [Anti-Muslim Cartoons: A Burning Issue?](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/02/anti-muslim-cartoons/): There’s not much to laugh about in European op-ed sections just now. The decision by newspapers in Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and Spain to publish cartoons considered blasphemous by Muslims has the potential to turn into the first skirmishes of a renewed culture war, to morph into the clash of civilisations hoped […] - [Iraq - 'Party's Over'](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/01/iraq-partys-over/): I didn’t see any Westerners at all until my second day, when I contacted the acting bureau chief for an American paper who was staying in my hotel. As we were discussing the state of reporting in Baghdad and Iraq in general, he told me that I was a little late to the game. These […] - [A Reporter in Iraq](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/01/a-reporter-in-iraq/): We’re supposed to be the voice of the people, the truth-tellers and the ruler of accountability. But the blast walls between journalists in Iraq and the rest of the country grow higher as fear outweighs responsibility. I’m always told that no story is worth your life. – Leila Fadel, Knight Ridder, Baghdad bureau - [Journalists Under Fire](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2006/01/journalists-under-fire/): Governments around the world are failing to prevent the murder and assassination of journalists, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ): The truth is that even democratic governments turn a blind eye to the crisis of violence against media… In Iraq, where media people hardly dare walk the streets, there are 18 cases of unexplained […] - [Solid Air](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2005/12/solid-air/): “All that is newspaper melts…” – Scott Rosenberg on the end of print newspapers: … the same process that ate their classified income is going to affect [newspaper owners’] other revenue streams. Just as classifieds went from costly to free, the display advertising will begin to dry up, as youth-seeking national advertisers follow their targets […] - [Publish and Be Financially Independent](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2005/12/publish-and-be-financially-independent/): It sounds like a mission impossible: set up a progressive publication, one which doesn’t shirk from flicking the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, and don’t worry if the money doesn’t immediately roll in. Robert Scheer, former columnist at the LA Times, sacked, he says, because of his opposition to the Iraq War, is trying to […] - [Print Loses To Pixels](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2005/12/print-loses-to-pixels/): Spurred on by Google’s “clever new products”, Washington Post chairman Don Graham sees an electronic future ahead for news: This year for the first time I have come to believe that we will be able to tell you about certain subjects better on the Internet than we will be able to in print. – Don […] - [Journalism Blues](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2005/12/journalism-blues/): It’s a real dark night of the soul for journalists. Feel their pain. The open season on media professionals shows no sign of stopping. Three o’clock in the morning and what’s up with journalists? Take these three takes: First, their business values make little sense, according to Huntley Paton, publisher of the Dallas Business Journal. […] - [Press Exchange](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2005/12/press-exchange/): At an in-house pow-wow last month looking at what’s next for the Guardian following its shrink from broadsheet to Berliner, editor Alan Rusbridger, chatting to blogger and Guardian Unlimited columnist Jeff Jarvis, downplayed the newspaper’s gleaming new printing presses. They may be the last presses we ever own. – Alan Rusbridger, Buzzmachine Way to go, […] - [Patent cupidity](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2005/10/patent-cupidity/): From the Economist’s latest survey of patents and technology: The granting [of] patents “inflames cupidity”, excites fraud, stimulates men to run after schemes that may enable them to levy a tax on the public, begets disputes and quarrels betwixt inventors, provokes endless lawsuits…The principle of the law from which such consequences flow cannot be just. […] - [FeedDigest](https://imakecontent.net/gear/2005/08/feeddigest/): Another day, another gee-whiz step forward in how I experience the net. I’ve just upgraded the web service which provides the recent bookmarks feed on iMakeContent’s left-hand column. Yeah, RSS is amazing. It promises to pull the pieces of our digital lives together. And it’s nearly there. FeedDigest is a free and easy way to […] - [Harry Potter takes a TRIP](https://imakecontent.net/infrastructure/2003/06/harry-potter-takes-a-trip/): Impatient for the sixth Harry Potter? Why not try Harry Potter and the Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS)? With demand outstripping supply, Muggles around the world have resorted to publishing their own stories about the teenage wizard. In China, there’s Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon; in Russia, Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass; in […] - [Beating the Event Horizon](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2003/04/beating-the-event-horizon/): Interviewed by Phillip Dodd for BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves last night, novelist William Gibson talked about the difficulties of writing in an age in which history has its finger pressed down firmly on the fast-forward button – not a cliché in 1984 when it appeared in Neuromancer – with no letting up in sight. Gibson […] - [A Splice of Mice](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2002/12/a-splice-of-mice/): Mickey isn’t the only mouse trying to wriggle out of the clutches of the masters of code. – Animation World Network Canada last week refused to grant a patent for a genetically modified mouse. Unlike the US, EU and Japan, Canada denies that Harvard’s scientists invented anything when they manipulated mouse genes. Its Supreme Court […] - [Off Switch For Big Media](https://imakecontent.net/futures/2002/12/off-switch-for-big-media/): It’s the beginning of the end of the big media monopoly, argues Robert X Cringely. The big media corporations may have succeeded in making copying illegal. But even Microsoft is starting to acknowledge that there’s been a total failure in stopping the growth of a culture of copying. Big media’s next step will be to […] - [How To Be A Genius](https://imakecontent.net/place/2002/11/how-to-be-a-genius/): It’s sharing ideas that leads to innovation. The Romantic idea of the artist as a lonely genius? It’s more like Newton and Oasis and the rest of us jostling for position on the shoulders of giants. According to Malcolm ‘Tipping Point‘ Gladwell, innovation happens when people egg each other on. Group social interaction results in […] - [Rip, Mix and Desist](https://imakecontent.net/infrastructure/2002/11/rip-mix-and-desist/): Develop an existing idea so that it becomes something new and you’ll be applauded for your creativity and genius. Unless you’re hit with a cease-and-desist letter first. The images and sounds in Illegal Art, currently at New York’s 313 Gallery, broke copyright law and so media corporations and their lawyers dragged the artists responsible to […] - [Ready for My Shot](https://imakecontent.net/communication/2002/04/ready-for-my-shot/): Without copyright term extensions, old films wouldn’t get distributed, argues the entertainment industry. ‘Indiscriminate exploitation’ by public domain copyists would reduce the flow of cash to Big Media and hence the motivation Big Media needs to ‘publish’ films. – CS Monitor Intellectual property academics Lawrence Lessig and Jason Schultz say that’s so much baloney. 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