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May 18, 2009

Video chat with high school students at Arapahoe HS in Littleton, CO








I did a live video-chat with some enterprising high-school freshmen at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, CO, a cabal of enterprising kids who are lobbying the school-system to add Little Brother to the statewide curriculum (!). We had a great chat -- they're really bright and lovely kids and clearly passionate and engaged!

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May 17, 2009

Closing panel from Convention on Modern Liberty

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the closing panel at the Convention on Modern Liberty with Billy Bragg, Lisa Appignanesi, Feargal Sharkey, Paul Gilroy and Henry Porter. The Convention was a whole-day event in which activists, scholars, Parliamentarians, regulators, teachers, cryptographers and others. On the closing panel, we were asked to give closing thoughts on the event -- I talked about the fact that British authoritarians have promised us security in exchange f

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May 16, 2009

Interview in Rolling Stone Argentina

Rolling Stone Argentina has a great interview with me about copyright, conducted by Ignacio Román.


Bueno, muchos músicos están despertando. Quizá no les guste lo que está pasando con Internet, porque durante toda su carrera les llenaron la cabeza diciéndoles "no te dejes copiar". Pero de ahí a ir en contra de sus propios fanáticos... En Estados Unidos, miles de personas fueron enjuiciadas, pero esas ganancias no fueron para los creadores. El artista promedio quiere ser recordado como el tipo co

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May 15, 2009

Talking about “sexting”






I shot a long video for the upcoming EU/Schoolnet event in Rome -- they've started putting pieces of it online. Here's me talking about "sexting," media literacy and hysteria.

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May 13, 2009

Little Brother wins the Ontario Library Association’s White Pine Award

Today I found myself surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of enthusiastic, high-school age readers from the Ontario school system, and was honoured to receive a popular award for best Canadian young adult novel of 2008. The award was the White Pine, part of the Ontario Library Association's "Forest of Reading" program -- librarians nominate ten books in each of several age-divided categories and students from across the province are encouraged to read all ten on the roster and vote for their favo

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Guardian column: Copyright protects creators, leaves fans out in the cold

In my latest Guardian column, "When love is harder to show than hate," I look at the fact that copyright protects critics who want to talk trash about creative works, but gives no real protection to people who want to say nice things about them.

The damage here is twofold: first, this privileges creativity that knocks things down over things that build things up. The privilege is real: in the 21st century, we all rely on many intermediaries for the publication of our works, whether it's YouTube,

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Column on “self-serve licensing” — a proposal to turn the makerverse into your R&D lab

In my latest Internet Evolution column, "Digital Licensing: Do It Yourself," I propose a new kind of self-serve, lightweight "commercial commons" that would allow makers to do small-scale commercial manufacturing of goods that remix copyrights and trademarks, with no upfront payments, and a fixed royalty rate that lets the makerverse operate as a giant, well-compensated R&D lab for products you should be selling:

From edge to edge, the Net is filled with creators of every imaginable tchotchke – a

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