Hansmann and Santilli – Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights

Hansmann, Henry and Marina Santilli. “Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights:  A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis.” The Journal of Legal Studies 26 1 (1997): 95-143. Print. This article considers the European civil-law jurisdiction of “moral rights” and their recent adoption in the United States.  Moral rights are essentially an artists’ – or deceased artists’ family’s – rights to works of art even after the transfer of copyright from... Read More

Litman – Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age

Litman, Jessica. “Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age.” Oregon Law Review 19 (1996). 2/15/2010      <http://www.personal.umich.edu/~jdlitman/papers/revising.html>. Litman argues in this now seminal piece that copyright law is based on a model devised for print media; however, the influx of live, filmed, and taped performances, televised media and digital media are rendering that model untenable.  Litman also recognizes that because of the large... Read More

CCR760 – CMS in Technical Communication – Just Notes

Technical Communication Quarterly 17(1) 2008 “Guest Editors’ Introduction:  Rationalizing and Rhetoricizing Content Management” by George Pullman and Baotong Gu The authors argue that we’ve been practicing CM for years through work like single sourcing, knowledge management and course management (Blackboard, etc.) This issue is an attempt to move technical communication from the static sphere of document design to the dynamic horizon of content management. Why do CMS’... Read More

CCR760 – Videos for Google Wave / Interface Screens

I’m creating a couple really quick and admittedly dirty videos for Google Wave navigation.  Please don’t critique them as I spent little time editing and just went for some coverage!  This video covers Google Wave Interface navigation: open source video, video platform, open source video editor var kaltura_swf = new SWFObject("http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_pf76vw0w", "kaltura_player_0_pf76vw0w", "410", "364", "9", "#000000"); kaltura_swf.addParam("wmode",... Read More

CCR760 – Datacloud – My Indictment: Dug the Book, What About that Broader Context?

I found this text to be interesting and a bit disconnected.  I think that J.E. is grappling with similar themes that have been brought up by other theorists in the past couple of years; most notably, I see the work of articulation as a response to complexity and the multiple enacted subjectivities of the postmodern object.  J.E. says as much in his book; however, I think had he worked closer with some Actor-Network theorists like John Law and Bruno Latour he might have gotten... Read More