Intellectual Property

Snurb — Monday 18 April 2005 10:53

M/C Journal: 'copy' CFP

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I posted the call for papers for the upcoming 'copy' issue of M/C Journal today:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 18 April 2005

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'copy' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal.

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Snurb — Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:28

Cyberactive Resistance?

Produsage Communities | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Intellectual Property | AoIR 2004 | Conferences |

The next (and last for this conference) session is about to begin, titled simply 'resistance?' Still a good turnout for the session even though people are now starting to leave the University of Sussex to catch their various planes. Andrew Ó Baoill starts this session with a study of MoveOn.org, a political group which started in 1998 around the Clinton impeachment campaign and enables participation in political action by members of the public.

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Snurb — Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:58

Science / Art / Law

Intellectual Property | Creative Commons | ISEA 2004 | New Media Arts | Conferences |

The second ISEA day in Tallinn has started. I'm currently in a panel on legal implications of avant-garde science / art projects. Mainly they're talking about the Steve Kurtz case - an artist in the US who was charged with bioterrorism offences when ambulance officers (whom he'd called following the sudden death of his wife) found bio-active substances which he was using in his art. While such charges have now been dropped, he's still being charged with mail fraud - not a minor matter in the US either...

I must admit that such debates always seem to have a somewhat …

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