“I think that the time when music could change the world is past, I think it would be very naive to think that in this day and age.”
Neil Young
[via FP Passport]
“We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what’s fair and what isn’t at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.”
Cory Doctorow, writing in the Guardian
[via Boing Boing]
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Score one for the good guys in the “video games as art” argument. The game (mac, pc, linux) only takes 5 minutes. Play it first and then read the author’s statement. I would comment further but I don’t want to ruin it. Truly a must play.
