Jandy's Clippings

Henry Jenkins - Locating Fair Use in the Space Between Fandom and the Art World

New Media Professor and Convergence Culture author Henry Jenkins hosts an article by a young artist who appropriates pop culture in her work - something which goes fine in the art world, but gets her into trouble when she posts her work on YouTube. I’ve seen a lot of things from film/television/new media critics and scholars about appropriation and fair use in the YouTube era, but this is an interesting take from someone in the fine art world.

1 year ago

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This frivolous lawsuit puts at serious risk the entire tradition of commentary on fiction. Any student writing a paper about the Harry Potter books, any scholarly treatise about it, will certainly do everything she’s complaining about. Once you publish fiction, Ms. Rowling, anybody is free to write about it, to comment on it, and to quote liberally from it, as long as the source is cited…. She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation. Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making no money from his efforts — which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars. Talent does not excuse Rowling’s ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress

Techdirt: Orson Scott Card Rips Apart JK Rowling For The Lexicon Lawsuit (via markhorne)

2 years ago

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[Video/demo] - Bookglutton.com. Their web-based reader looks to incorporate many of the features I’d like—toggleable annotations, for instance. Private beta now, so we’ll see.

2 years ago

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