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Alt Text: The Sinister Sons of SOPA
SOPA and PIPA may sound like adorable gnomes from a Finnish children’s program in which puppets teach Scandinavian children the virtues of taciturnity, taxation and hot-tubbing, but they’re actually...
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How the Artist Who Built the ‘Chuck Close Filter’ Got Slammed by Chuck Close
When digital artist Scott Blake created a website he called the "Chuck Close Filter" -- which takes photos and makes mosaics out of them, in the style of Close's famous paintings -- he didn't expect to...
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Manga Artist Lets Anyone Use His Work, Royalty-Free
Japanese artist Shuho Sato is to allow anyone to use and adapt his work for without having to pay royalties.
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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy | With Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow Grows His...
His latest Young Adult novel is sure to inspire, thanks to its alluring tale of tech-savvy anarchist runaways who attempt to take on the entertainment industry.
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Exclusive Video: How They Put the Pervy Teddy Bear in Ted
To interact with the pervy, boozy bear in Ted the actors had to "talk to air" so the computer-generated bear could be added later. Here's how they did it.
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Mumford & Sons Warn Against ‘Unauthorized Lending’ of Their CD
Mumford & Sons' new album Babel has a warning against unauthorized "lending." Wait, what?
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Tolkien’s Estate Countersued in Legal Battle Over Lord of the Rings Slot...
J.R.R. Tolkien's estate is suing the producers of the Lord of the Rings movies over merchandise that they believe damages the books' reputation and goodwill -- and being countersued by them.
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Watch Pirate Bay Documentary TPB AFK Here (Or on Pirate Bay, Naturally)
The new documentary TPB AFK is now available in almost every online format from YouTube to, yes, The Pirate Bay.
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EFF Helps Return ‘Space Marine’ Book to Amazon After ‘Trademark Bullying’...
The exile for Spots the Space Marine is over, with MCA Hogarth's digital book now reinstated on Amazon. But why was the book removed in the first place?
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Game of Thrones Director: Online Piracy Doesn’t Matter — Wait, It Does
Game of Thrones was 2012's most pirated TV show, something that one of the show's directors seems to have mixed feelings about.
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Kim Dotcom’s Floating Head Speaks to SXSW via Skype
In one of the more surreal discussions at SXSW, Kim Dotcom, the notorious founder of Megaupload, spoke to an audience via Skype on Monday afternoon, appearing in front of an all-black background and in...
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Think the Napster Revolution Is Over? Think Again
Documentary Downloaded, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, details why the Napster story was -- and is -- relevant to all disruptive technologies.
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‘Kindle Worlds’ Lets Authors Publish Fan Fiction — At Dubious Cost
Yesterday, Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Worlds — a way for fanfic writers to publish. But does the fine print make it more trouble than its worth?
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People Are Totally Binge-Watching Arrested Development, and Pirating It Too
Netflix doesn't release viewership numbers, but according to outside metrics a fair amount of people are binge-watching Arrested Development. And pirating it too, naturally.
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Photo Galleries | The Pirate Cinema Transforms Film Torrents Into Illicit...
Think file transfers aren't art? Think again.
View ArticleThe Tricky Business of Copyrighting Magic, Performances, and Tricks of the Trade
If a rival magician steals my trick, he’ll argue that he can’t perform the uncopyrightable trick without the copyrightable choreography, and that he’s therefore not liable for infringement. And his...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Gives Its Hacktivists the Same Name as Actual Activist...
A real-world organization shares the name of the Anonymous-like group in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. -- and it's not too happy about the coincidence.
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Please Stop Talking About Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBoeuf isn't a hero. He's not "brilliantly parody[ing]" anything. He's an entitled celebrity who has spent the last few years declaring himself a genius while stealing the work of other artists.
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New Aaron Swartz Documentary Continues His Crusade for Digital Freedom
Internet activist Aaron Swartz died last year, but the documentary about his life may help bring awareness to the causes he championed.
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Publishers Are Warming to Fan Fiction, But Can It Go Mainstream?
Literary publishing's uneasy relationship with fan fiction has been complicated by the realization that fandom is a huge potential market—one already stocked with both prolific authors and enthusiastic...
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