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  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
  Yes I do! Most indie filmmakers I talk to complain about distributors and “middlemen,” but they’re missing the real problem. Middlemen – publishers, distributors, resellers – can do excellent work. The problem is not middlemen; it’s monopolies. So many middlemen insist on monopolies, we’ve forgotten we ...
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• Frunch: the Free Culture Lunch, #2

  
  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
  
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• New Policy Journal: The Public Policy and Governance Review

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 122
  Last week saw the launch of a new biannual online journal called The Public Policy and Governance Review. Started by students and faculty from universities across Canada the journal seeks to inject some new ideas and thoughts into the public policy sphere. I would argue that it already has. Check out this paragraph ...
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• Correction, again

  
  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
  I’m reposting this because misinformation continues to spread all over the interwebs. Maybe I’ll post it every month. Dear Journalists Dear Journalists, bloggers, commenters, etc., Some of you are writing that I was forced to choose the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license because the film is ...
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• Open Letter to Sherman Alexie

  
  Egocity: Developer's Edition — Authority: 92
  Because I havent yet said this before: my posts here are my own opinion. They do not represent my employers opinion in any shape or form. While going through my backlog of TV shows from the past week, I was watching the Colbert Report from Tuesday (December 1) . During his interview with Sherman Alexie, I heard ...
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• Counterfeit Intellectual Property

  
  A Fool's Wisdom — Authority: 104
  What’s interesting is that there’s clearly a collateral campaign underway to support ACTA by hammering on the wickedness of counterfeiting – allowing the bait and switch game to be played again. Here’s an  example : Canada trails far behind the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and France by not enacting ...
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• In Brief: Youthful Persistence

  
  Good Morning, Mr. Simon — Authority: 104
  A 68-year old South Korean woman recently passed the written exam for a driver’s license after 949 failed attempts. After hearing this news story, I am pondering a move to South Korea. Here in America, you are likely to be given a free pass after about 10 tries. But I am too principled to accept such. ~~~ Posted in ...
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• Chicago Woman Could Get 3 Years for Taping 3 Minutes of ‘Twilight: New Moon’

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 553
  DAN ROZEK reports in the Chicago Sun-Times : Taping three minutes of “Twilight: New Moon” during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights. Now, the 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony ...
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• This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 739
  Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff know financial crises. In the preamble to their book, recommended by FP Big Thinkers Willem Buiter and Mohamed El-Erian, the two trace back the history of how, with each shock and economic trouble, the world believes that this time is different. Its not.
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• Animal Spirits

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 739
  In a chapter of their new book , recommended by FP Big Thinker Paul Collier, George A. Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain why stories -- the human narratives we use to make sense of a complicated world -- are vital to understanding economics.
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• Frunch: the Free Culture Lunch

  
  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
  This Friday, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc. I’m trying to build another Free Culture community in New York. This could become a regular thing every ...
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  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
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• WIN TWO FREE SOCIETY SHIRTS!!!

  
  Pocket Full of Paper — Authority: 448
  Ayo! So I have a cool way you guys can win two free Society t-shirts (pictured above). Starting Monday at 3:00pm ET and ending Thursday 3:00pm ET , the person who gets the most people to sign up for the PFOP mailing list wins those two Society shirts in any size and some PFOP x LumzLenz stickers! Just tell your ...
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• FCF Charter avoids free culture clichés

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 469
  Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.I’ll admit it: When I went to the website for the Charter for Innovation, Creativity, and Access to Knowledge and watched the inane video prominently posted on the front page my first impression was that it was going to be a bit foolish. After studying ...
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• Thankful for…

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 117
  In no particular order or context. No personal stuff and by no means a complete list: Wordpress (like, duh). Wikipedia (default for looking up new stuff) Wikis in general (great lab management tool. Don’t need LIMS) Open Access Publishing and Creative Commons licensing. FLOSS licensing ...
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• The Most Interesting Places to Visit in Manhattan

  
  World News — Authority: 169
  Whats not to love about New York City? My favorite borough is Manhattan, though each one certainly has its advantages. There are so many things to do in Manhattan, and I could spend a lifetime keeping myself busy.
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• 12/6/09: Asian Art Museum Free Admission Day: Target Sundays | Civic Center

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 482
  The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian Art, with a collection of over 17,000 artworks spanning 6,000 years of history. The museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, ...
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• 12/1/09: First Tuesdays: Free Admission to SF MOMA

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 482
  In the striking Mario Botta-designed building, SFMOMA houses the West Coast’s most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century art including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The stellar collection tells the story of modern and contemporary art through master works by Ansel ...
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• Everyone pays for my art.

  
  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 122
  They pay attention. Attention being the most valuable, and most limited, resource there is for humans. It’s more limited than money; you can’t just print more. People don’t “consume” art, they attend to it. Meanwhile, here’s a little thing on Sita’s distribution model in the Wall Street Journal.
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• Microblogging OpenOffice.org

  
  SolidOffice — Authority: 92
  My team recently created a demonstration site to promote Six Apart’s new Motion platform and provide a space for OpenOffice.org community members and fans to share with each other at Share OpenOffice.org . The site is ideal to quickly post questions, links, and images and to embed videos and spark conversations ...
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