David Foster Wallace’s NYT profile of Roger Federer was in the back of my mind yesterday as I watched Tiger… Read More »Notes on an Entertainment Weekend

I’ve been exploring egalitarian themes for some time, and hope to tie them up into a draft entitled “Egalitarian Principles for Copyright” sometime this fall. To get some arguments on the table, I’ll be doing a series of posts on the idea here. Today’s topic is a new control/access tradeoff… Read More »Egalitarian Copyright (Part 1): A New Control/Access Tradeoff

Since I came back from my summer hiatus, I’ve been trying to figure out a useful way to get back… Read More »Google as Proxy

Google’s efforts to catalog the world’s knowledge first appeared premised on fair use absolutism: –They weren’t going to negotiate with… Read More »Google’s Fight and Flight Response