Getting back to things

Dragoncon was fun and interesting. Part of my motivation for going was to market my Tshirts, because the kind of people who go to Dragoncon are the kind of people who would enjoy my sense of humor. So, I ordered four of my favorite designs to wear while I was there.

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Of Fandom and Copyright

After I came back from DragonCon and started corresponding with the lawyer I met there, I realized I didn’t understand enough about copyright to properly discuss some of the things I wanted to discuss, so I decided I should fully read the book I got at SIGGRAPH back in 2003 – Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman. I’d only skimmed it before. I didn’t expect to really get into it, but she writes in a very conversational style, and the issue is one that interests me very much. Before I knew it, I had half the book marked with random slips of paper and old mailing envelopes – whatever was close to hand. I have written before about what I think should be done to solve the “fanfic violates copyright, and if we try to make money on it TPTB will come down on us” problem. I seem to recall that during that incident, someone posted a comment that “George Lucas is going to eat your face,” which was so amusing that someone on F_W immortalized it in icon form. But that’s neither here nor there.

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