My roommates and I (well one former roommate, but that only changed 2 weeks ago) all have January birthdays: Stephen on the 16th, mine today, and Andrew on the 24th, so we had a joint birthday party last night. Good times all around.
As previously shown, the local grocery store will print any picture on a cake. You just give them $8 and tell them the image is not under copyright. We have yet to explore the implications of Cake-based Piracy, but I don’t think SOPA/PIPA covers that, so in the event that one of them passes I vote that be the new social medium. I feel that’s an idea we can all get behind.
Cake-ternet! (Also reblogging because I made the image (not the cake… I am better with photoshop than with baking))
Stars Blink Out: the Struggle for Relevance: Golan v. Holder and SOPA: A Lesson In Civics
A BLOG POST! I haven’t done one of these in what feels like forever. This one’s about how the SOPA protests and the decision today in Golan v. Holder both stand for the same proposition: we need to start holding our congresspeople responsible for the copyright law policies they enact on our behalf. Hope it’s at least somewhat interesting!
This is a blog post that I wrote.
The truth is that Congress is the one who could fix this by actually fixing copyright law and making it clear that the Court’s interpretation was wrong. But, instead, because Hollywood pays the bills, they only make copyright law worse.
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It’s a great quote. And it encapsulates the major problem with expecting the court to fix copyright. It’s just plain NOT THEIR JOB. We need to use our SOPA-protest-like mechanisms and mentalities to fix things like this, not our faith in 9 people in robes. I have more to say, coming soon! (via starsblinkout) |
