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Illegal Art: Considering Our Culture Of Copying
Get PDFUsing New zealand case studies, this article argues that modern copyright law does not simply give rights to artists and copyright holders, but aims to provide a balance between artistic and public rights – a balance between what is good for copyright holders and what is good for culture and the economy as a whole. Increased enforcement of outdated copyright law has the potential to harm the progress of the arts
Open Networks, Distributed Identities: Cory Doctorow and the Literature of Free Culture
Get PDFDrawing upon cultural theoretical work on free and open source software and on network cultures, this article considers how Cory Doctorow’s fiction provides a fictional cartography of the obsessions, anxieties, and opportunities that have come to preoccupy digital culture in the 2000s. However, in contrast with the now-familiar notion that the distributed networks are allowing a smooth entry into inclusive informational communities, this essay will claim that Doctorow’s fiction dramatises the emergence of alternative models of subjectivity and social belonging which function as a protest to the proprietary systems that govern the consumption, cultural location, and communication of information
Book Review: Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader, Edited by Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2011
Get PDFBook Review: Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader, Edited by Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2011, paperback, 284 pages. ISBN 978-0-1954-3231-
Review - Virus.circus.probe. Performed by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand at GUTTED. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE). Hollywood, CA. 19 January 2011
Get PDFVirus.circus.probe. Performed by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand at GUTTED. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE). Hollywood, CA. 19 January 2011. 
Open source publishing, ‘book sprints’ and possible futures
Get PDFThere are a number of Open Source Publishing networks and communities which facilitate the use of helpful tools for free publishing that can be adapted for various uses or goals. However many of these groups do not consciously take into account all of the processes necessary to solve all problems. The ecologies of many of these networks tend to fetishize the digital and neglect other possible solutions
