Via Presentation Zen, here’s a great talk by Lawrence Lessig on the tension between creativity and copyright. It’s long, but should not be missed.

Via Boing Boing:
The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA’s outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA’s demands. Go Corn Huskers!
Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it [...]

Blogger Perez Hilton is about as odious to me as his sorta-namesake, Paris, with whom he shares a loud and burning desire to be famous despite having no discernible skills.
That said, nobody deserves what he’s just been handed: a $7.6 million dollar lawsuit for copyright infringement. The plaintiff is photography company X17, who claims through [...]

It’s easy to think the way everyone else does. But if you do that, you’re probably either a loser or a jerk. And probably both.
In an interview with Reason Magazine, the guys from South Park show us why they’re not losers or jerks. (Link via Boing Boing)
Reason: When it looked like Comedy Central wasn’t going [...]