tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52409302011-04-22T03:39:32.163ZBeyond the CommonsAnthony McCann's weblog supporting the <a href="http://www.beyondthecommons.com">beyondthecommons website</a>Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1156266587182258282006-08-22T17:07:00.000Z2006-08-22T17:09:47.210ZEngineered Grass Found Growing in WildAugust 17, 2006 — By William McCall, Associated PressPORTLAND, Ore. — Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild, posing one of the first threats of agricultural biotechnology escaping from the farm in the United States, a new study says. Creeping bentgrass was engineered to resist the popular herbicide Roundup to allow moreAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1155291876341984172006-08-11T10:21:00.000Z2006-08-11T10:24:36.360ZApologies for not keeping this blog going. I've been starting up a new one from the 'crafting gentleness' page. I was a little concerned that an exclusive focus on enclosure would let the dynamics of enclosure become far more important to me in my life than I want them to be. So, the politics of gentleness is my main focus now, although I intend to continue on with the critique of enclosing Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1155290364251930582006-08-11T09:58:00.000Z2006-08-11T09:59:24.266ZFrom: Shirin EbadiSent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 1:54 PM There is a very important matter I would like to discuss with you. I conduct my human rights activities through the Defender of Human Rights Center (DHRC). I am the president of this center and we have three important responsibilities: a. We report the violations of human rights that take place in Iran. b. We defend Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1144614548600538292006-04-09T20:27:00.000Z2006-04-09T20:34:15.856ZEnclosure and the pyeongtaek farmershttp://www.saveptfarmers.org/home.html"The farming town of Daechuri, Korean for "Great Harvest Village", will never reap its famous rice harvest again, if the United States military continues with the planned expansion of its Camp Humphreys Army base. This concentration of U.S. troops in the Pyeongtaek region of South Korea will destroy the farming communities Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1144137295112097392006-04-04T07:53:00.000Z2006-04-04T07:54:55.116ZDocumentary makers decry Smithsonian dealSat, 01 Apr 2006 16:29:45 ESThttp://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/04/01/smithsonian-showtime.htmlCBC ArtsTwo well-known American documentary filmmakers have come out against a recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks Inc.The New York Times reports Ken Burns, who directed The Civil War, Jazz and Baseball documentary Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1144136902763076662006-04-04T07:30:00.000Z2006-04-04T07:48:22.786ZSilence in classUniversity professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; studentsencouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?By Gary YoungeTuesday April 4, 2006Guardian Unlimited Original ArticleAfter the screenwriter Walter Bernstein was placed on the blacklist Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1143110233997786322006-03-23T10:36:00.000Z2006-03-23T10:38:25.533ZAfrican sisters win royalties to ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1140515272050290532006-02-21T09:47:00.000Z2006-02-21T09:47:52.066ZCopyright is pricing consumers out of knowledgehttp://www.consumersinternational.org/20 February: A new Consumers International report has condemned World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) technical assistance as 'thoroughly inadequate', and is demanding a wholesale review of the organisation's legislative advice to developing countries. The criticism comes as WIPO delegates meet in Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1139230759656573492006-02-06T11:59:00.000Z2006-02-06T12:59:19.696ZHe Took On the Whole Power-Tool IndustryFrom: Inc. Magazine, July 2005 By: Melba NewsomeIn February 2001, Stephen Gass strode to the podium in a conferenceroom at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and began the video presentation for SawStop, his new invention. The 75 attendees watched the screen closely as a woodworker fed a sheet of plywood into a power-saw bladespinning at 4,000 rpm. Then a hot dogAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137763060111205392006-01-20T13:17:00.000Z2006-01-20T13:17:40.123ZThe Piracy Calculatorhttp://qntm.org/oweAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137752591746682142006-01-20T10:20:00.000Z2006-01-20T10:23:11.750ZGoogle clashes with feds in battle over online search requestsby Michael Liedtke, Associated Pressfrom the San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 19, 2006SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine - a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools of Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137752409654125332006-01-20T10:16:00.000Z2006-01-20T10:20:09.656ZTraditional Knowledge: Intellectual Property to be Protected?(Comtex Global News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)WASHINGTON, Jan 19,2006(U.S. Newswire via COMTEX)In advance of next week's Conventionon Biological Diversity (CBD) in Spain, the Institute for PolicyInnovation (IPI) hosted a policy luncheon yesterday to explore some of the issues at stake in the debate over "traditional knowledge."Event Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137752157269735192006-01-20T10:04:00.000Z2006-01-20T10:15:57.286ZPatently AggressiveForgent Networks sues software giants for patent infringement. Is it protecting inventors--or driving a stake through the heart of innovation?http://www.fastcompany.comFrom: Issue 102 January 2006 Page 79By: Jennifer ReingoldIt's a gorgeous sun-soaked day in southwest Austin. At a generic glassoffice building in a random corporate park, the indoor waterfall gushes amerry Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137686522969757102006-01-19T15:51:00.000Z2006-01-19T16:02:02.986ZMoviesI went to see Woody Allen's Match Point yesterday. I am still somewhat flabbergasted that both Match Point and Brokeback Mountain managed to get into the top 5 nominations for best movie at the Golden Globes. Never mind that critics everwhere seem to be raving about them. Am I going mad or something? Does no-one else think that they are both decidedly average movies, if not actually bad Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1137428994322588332006-01-16T16:27:00.000Z2006-01-16T16:29:54.333ZWhen you find yourself feeling deeper than you ever wished you could, sometimes something beautiful comes along to make a difference:http://www.bravia-advert.com/Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1136902326082354852006-01-10T14:09:00.000Z2006-01-10T14:12:06.093ZP2P users set up a political party in Sweden(Source: afterdawn.com)A new political party has been set up in Sweden that plans to participate to country's upcoming general elections. The party is called Piratpartiet (Pirate party) and it aims to remove copyright laws from Sweden.The party plans to remove all immaterial rights, including copyrights and patents and also plans to stop Sweden's Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1136492322013773952006-01-05T20:17:00.000Z2006-01-05T20:24:48.826ZQuotations about fear, courage, and change ...http://www.quotegarden.com/fear.htmlhttp://open-mind.org/SP/Quotes.htmAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1136379741963572052006-01-04T13:01:00.000Z2006-01-04T13:02:21.973Z“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” (Maya Angelou)http://ferrydust.com/wordsAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1136307068968301592006-01-03T16:48:00.000Z2006-01-03T16:51:08.976ZEvery now and then I'll post other people's poems that make me feel good about being a human being.Into Their True GentlenessFor Katherine KavanaghIf love is the greatest reality,and I believe it is,the gentle are more realthan the violent or thanthose like me whohate violence,long for gentleness,but never in their own actachieve true gentleness.We fall in love with peoplewe consider gentle,we Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1136231826926195092006-01-02T19:53:00.000Z2006-01-02T19:57:06.936ZTime flies ...I didn't realise it had been so long since I last posted here. I'll see if I can keep this going this year.This will be a year for internal recalibration, methinks ... remembering or discovering what I'd like to be important to me about how to be in the world, and doing what I can to put that into practice.Currently working my way through season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (again)Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1132213231093852742005-11-17T07:38:00.000Z2005-11-17T07:40:31.103ZArt, creativity, intellectual property and the commons: Can free/libre culture transform art?Dave BerryFree Software Magazine"The act of artistic production doesn’t come from nowhere; neither is it born in the heads of private individuals. It doesn’t dwell in a social nothingness. Nor does it start with a blank canvas."http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_06/focus-art_and_commons/Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1132212234809312272005-11-17T07:22:00.000Z2005-11-17T07:23:54.820ZCONTROVERSIAL CONSENSUS MAINTAINS INTERNET STATUS QUO Inter Press Service at http://www.ipsnews.netHilmi TorosTUNIS - The WSIS kicked off Wednesday with a compromise declaration approved unanimously after several months of fruitless negotiations. Discontent has arisen because the Internet status quo has been maintained, with the United States in effect controlling the Internet. http://Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1132211431535794802005-11-17T07:08:00.000Z2005-11-17T07:10:31.546ZWIPO Copyright Committee To Meet AfterYear-Long HiatusNovember 16, 2005http://www.IP-Watch.orgThe last time the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation(WIPO) copyright committee met it ended in acrimony, with still-bitter memories for some member governments who argued their objections to the outcome were wrongly ignored.But after a year and numerous regional consultations, many participantsAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1130661770499086572005-10-30T09:37:00.000Z2005-10-30T09:42:50.503ZHow the cult of the guru puts gullible nation under its spellBy Sarah Womack and Jonathan Petre (Filed: 28/10/2005)http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/28/nguru28.xmlThey are everywhere - the life coaches, the supernannies, the makeover experts, the celebrity chefs, the fashion police.They tell us what not to wear, what not to eat, what not to do with ourlives, our Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1130661245437448332005-10-30T09:19:00.000Z2005-10-30T09:34:46.540ZThe New McCarthyism: On the Recent Purge of David GraeberKK VegaFifth Estate MagazineAnarchist anthropologist David Graeber's recent purge from Yale University—coming hot on the heels of thetrial-by-media of Native American radical WardChurchill—is one of many recent attacks on radical professors that have shaken the supposedly safe zone of the ostensibly liberal academy. Graeber’s contract was Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1130425209354601622005-10-27T14:54:00.000Z2005-10-27T15:00:09.370ZIRC NewsEnvironmental News from IRCForging local-global links for policy alternatives, strategic dialogue,and citizen action since 1979.http://www.irc-online.org/October 25, 2005New from the IRC:Cellulose and Forestation: Two Sides of a Predatory ModelBy Raúl ZibechiThe construction of two huge cellulose factories on the Uruguay River that threaten to pollute the binational stream illustrates howAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1130009188348616152005-10-22T19:25:00.000Z2005-10-22T19:27:22.720ZTheoretical Model of Enclosure (Diagram)I realise that it's sort of difficult to make sense of diagrams without the accompanying theoretical exposition, but summary diagrams that accompany my theoretical work are now up on my website at www.beyondthecommons.org. They offer a social interactional model of the structuring of expectation. If you can manage to make sense of them at all (there is Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129451611364919552005-10-16T08:26:00.000Z2005-10-16T18:50:42.636ZDominant Political Positionings in Environments of Enclosure?I used to think they were justFIGHTFLYFREEZETo these I now addCAPITULATEANALYSE(enclosing analysis)I suggest alternatives ofPARTICIPATEANALYSE(gentle relational analysis of your participation and of the situation)and NEGOTIATE(negotiation as responsive adaptation rather than agreement) Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129451207046157482005-10-16T08:23:00.000Z2005-10-16T08:42:03.806ZOthernessFor me, the 'construction' (expectational negotiation) of the 'Other' or 'Otherness' involves two (enclosing) discursive strategies working together:a) Semantic closure: the assumption that what we say or think about what happens corresponds exactly to what happens, andb) Separation: the discursive equation of difference as separateness (e.g. the 'them' part of certain kinds of attitude Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129389071490263592005-10-15T15:09:00.000Z2005-10-15T15:11:11.496ZOne-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study RevealsStefan Lovgren for National Geographic NewsOctober 13, 2005A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities.The study, which is reported this week in the journal Science, is the first time that a detailed map has been created to match patents to specific Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129278599971382622005-10-14T07:50:00.000Z2005-10-14T08:37:45.920ZOppositesIt strikes me that people are often very quick to declare a relationship of opposition. Now if you believe that the world is structured in terms of opposition or oppositional forces (order/chaos, good/evil, male/female etc) then that might not seem to be of any note whatsoever. However, from an undualistic understanding of experience the idea of opposition can sort of dissolve into an Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129276139042668392005-10-14T07:36:00.000Z2005-10-14T07:48:59.050ZLetter to US Congress on proposals at WIPO to create new IP right for broadcasting and webcasting organizationsletter - http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/2cong4frnotice.html, CPTech page on casting treaty: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/?f=3D20041117_open_letter.html13 October 2005Dear Senators Bill Frist, Harry Reid, Arlen Specter, Patrick J. Leahy, and Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129233895066371362005-10-13T20:01:00.000Z2005-10-13T20:04:55.070ZEnclosure DiagramsI'm sure there are those who would think it not such a good idea, but for those who are in any way inclined towards the visual rather than the verbally philosophical I have reduced what I understand to be the primary dynamics of enclosure to a few diagrams. They are linked off the main page but can also be found at http://www.beyondthecommons.com/register.pdfAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129192444851757542005-10-13T08:27:00.000Z2005-10-13T08:34:04.860ZFatwas Concerning Intellectual PropertyFrom http://www.thejakartapost.comMohamad Mova Al 'Afghani, JakartaOne important matter contained within fatwas (edicts) recently issued by the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) is the judgment that Intellectual Property(IP) violations are haram. This conclusion means that utilizing IP without a right is a violation of God's prescribed law and thus a sinful Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1129099705076620932005-10-12T06:42:00.000Z2005-10-12T06:48:25.083ZTerminator seedsFrom 2005 IPS - Inter Press ServiceLONDONA group of Peruvian indigenous farmers have prepared an extensively researched counter to a Canadian move to revive 'terminator'seeds.Terminator seeds work only once. For a new crop, farmers would have to go back to sellers. These seeds that do not regenerate like normal seedswould work hugely to the advantage of corporations, to the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1128769937856475612005-10-08T11:09:00.000Z2005-10-08T11:12:17.863ZMy anxieties haven't so much been about how to progress within the university sector with my rather idiosyncratic political positioning, wondering how I might continue as a club member, but more in the line of wondering how long I can persist in institutional environments that consistently and increasingly guide me to spend a lot of time and energy on things that are not only not important to me,Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1118994366028748822005-06-17T07:23:00.000Z2005-06-17T07:46:06.033ZHi,The dynamics of enclosure are helpfully understood as involving very personal and emotionally-charged experiences. Not least among such experiences would be the experience of being bullied. What's of interest to me is the way in which bullying becomes normalized within an environment, and the ways in which those being bullied can often become the collateral damage of the "environment of Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1118317105571449472005-06-09T11:30:00.000Z2005-06-09T11:39:24.973ZOkay, back again. Life has been a little insane of late (is it ever anything but?), but I have finally managed to get myself a permanent job, at Sheffield Hallam University in England. I have moved at least every two years since 1988, so I may have an opportunity now to stretch that record a little! :) I'm lecturing in Visual Culture, Cultural Policy and Management, and Media Studies (Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1106645575621287712005-01-25T09:31:00.000Z2005-01-25T09:32:55.623ZNews: Corporate witch hunting in academia
Cancer, Chemicals and History
by JON WIENER
[from the February 7, 2005 issue of The Nation]
Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have
launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the
industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and
cancer. In an unprecedented move, attorneys for Dow, Monsanto,Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1105715546059151402005-01-14T15:09:00.000Z2005-01-14T15:12:26.060ZArticle: Enclosure
From Patrick O'Sullivan's Irish Diaspora list
Journal of Medieval History
Volume 12, Issue 1 , March 1986, Pages 15-36
Copyright C 1986 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
Women's monastic enclosures in early Ireland: a study of female
spirituality and male monastic mentalities
Lisa M. Bitel
Available online 15 October 2003.
Abstract
Early Irish communities of religiousAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1105187822836695822005-01-08T13:33:00.000Z2005-01-08T12:37:02.836ZInterview with Bill Gates
"Gates taking a seat in your den"
January 5, 2005, 6:30 PM PT By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Excerpt ...
CNET Question: In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, "We've got to look at patents, Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1105187525363182392005-01-08T13:23:00.000Z2005-01-08T12:32:05.363ZBook Review
Published by EH.NET (January 2005)
Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill,
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford: Stanford UniversityPress, 2004. xii + 263 pp. $24.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8047-4854-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Frank D. Lewis, Department of Economics, Queen's University.
Implicit in economic transactions is the understanding that the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1105029606957765192005-01-06T16:37:00.000Z2005-01-06T16:40:06.956ZBeyond the Commons Website: Powerpoint Files
The powerpoint files that I was having problems with can now be accessed at www.beyondthecommons.org.
I have started two new websites:
www.musicandcopyright.org and www.anthonymccann.com
This is to because I found the BTC site was getting a little chaotic, and I think it makes sense to have the enclosure and the commons material separate from the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1105029453837181762005-01-06T16:36:00.000Z2005-01-06T16:37:33.836ZNew publications launched at the 3rd World Conservation Congress
New CMWG publications launched at the 3rd World Conservation Congress in Bangkok:
Issue no. 13 of Policy Matters, dedicated to History, Culture and Conservation (308 pages, http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Publications/Publications.htm#pm13 )
Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Co-management of Natural Resources throughout the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1103631517438724142004-12-21T13:15:00.000Z2004-12-21T12:18:37.436ZSo this powerpoint lark hasn't been working out too well, with my complete inability to have my powerpoint files work on my webpage. So ... over Christmas I will see what I can do to translate rather than convert the powerpoint files into simple html webpages. So, that will mean the SEM paper, "It seems to be getting worse”: Intellectual Property, Discursive Feedback, and the Commodification of Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1103476821419589462004-12-19T17:17:00.000Z2004-12-19T17:20:21.420ZBack in business again
I changed my web hosting, and the weblog got shunted for a while. But it's back online again as I am now linking it through to blogspot. Should be able to get back on board with the news and info service now. I'm not sure what the status of things will be at the end of January as my computer access goes back to library-level access, which doesn't allow for FTP, but I'll Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1098693835982409912004-10-25T08:40:00.000Z2004-10-25T08:45:24.263ZNews: Spitzer targets music giants
Business Standard
Subpoenas issued to EMI, Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music
Stephanie Kirchgaessner & David Wells
New YorkOctober 25, 2004
The recording industry, already battered by a surge in recent years of illegal music piracy, increased competition and heavy regulatory scrutiny, is facing a new and potentially costly Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1098186846968484272004-10-19T11:41:00.000Z2004-10-19T11:54:06.966ZOpinion/Article: Anti-intellectualism and activism
After receiving a couple of very nasty emails on a mailing list I frequent, I have had cause to think about the power of anti-intellectualism. Yes, self-professed 'intellectuals' can sometimes be a priggish bunch, but without analysis of some sort, whether professional or otherwise, I think we'd all be going to hell in a handbasket of unexaminedAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1098027755599838562004-10-17T15:41:00.000Z2004-10-17T15:42:35.600ZNew Publication: Shock and Awe: War on Words
Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer González, Bettina Stoetzer, Anna Tsing, eds.
If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words (New Pacific Press: Fall 2004) is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1098027293260147642004-10-17T15:32:00.000Z2004-10-17T15:34:53.260ZNews: The secret dam: China begins huge project in World Heritage Site, displacing up to 100,000 people and devastating unique tribal societies
The Independent
By Jasper Becker in Beijing and Daniel Howden
16 October 2004
In the shadow of the Jade Dragon Snow Peak, deep inside the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Chinese developers are operating in secret to push through a massive dam project that will Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1097941359287934492004-10-16T15:36:00.000Z2004-10-16T15:42:39.286ZNews: Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
(submitted by Brian McKenna)
Counterpunch
A Retail Mall at Teotihuacan?
Wal-Mart vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
By LAURA CARLSEN
The showdown is rife with symbolism. Wal-Mart's expansion plans in Mexico have brought about a modern-day clash of passions and principles on the site of one the earth's first great civilizations.
Several Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1097246246304940772004-10-08T14:34:00.000Z2004-10-08T14:37:26.303ZNews: 459 Net song-swappers sued
REUTERS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 07, 2004 09:45:25 PM
LONDON: The piracy-battered music industry said on Thursday it will sueBritish, French and Austrian music fans for the first time as it intensifies its legal crackdown on Internet song-swappers.
The drive singles out users of popular file-sharing networks Kazaa, eDonkey, and Gnutella where Internet users can Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1097222612071015142004-10-08T08:02:00.000Z2004-10-08T08:03:32.070ZLatest Issue: UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Report
The latest issue of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive Report is now available online for your perusal at http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/EARvol4no4.htm
Table of Contents for this issue, Volume 4, Number 4 - Summer 2004:
- Archive hours for Fall 2004
- OID Grant for 2004-05
- Archive CD Review by Erin Ensley
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1097222460525957402004-10-08T07:58:00.000Z2004-10-08T08:01:00.526ZInteresting Link: Social Impact Assessment
A message from Rabel J. Burdge
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce my just published website on social impact assessment.
www.socialimpactassessment.net
Among the many features you will find:
1. An updated SIA bibliography
2. Key citations for social impact assessment
3. Access to the US and International Guidelines and Principles for SIA
4. Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1097056201160873442004-10-06T09:47:00.000Z2004-10-06T09:50:01.160ZFellowship: Cultural Studies, Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology etc.
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington DC is once again advertising its Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowships in the Humanities and the
Study of Culture, for those pursuing study under the theme, "Theorizing Cultural Heritage".
Deadline for 2005-06 fellowships is January 15, 2005.
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096979274234626192004-10-05T10:25:00.000Z2004-10-05T12:27:54.236ZFellowship: Indigenous Development
Massey University, in New Zealand, are inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indigenous Development (A404-04L). Based within the School of People, Environment & Planning, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, they seek a PhD graduate interested in rethinking concepts of development and indigeneity and the inter-relationships between them. Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096971797255685682004-10-05T10:21:00.000Z2004-10-05T10:23:17.256ZFellowship: Irish Studies
NEH KEOUGH FELLOWSHIPS IN IRISH STUDIES
Application Deadline January 2, 2005
With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for its faculty fellowship program. The NEH KeoughFellowship will enable an outstanding scholar to continue his or her Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096971639479019862004-10-05T10:19:00.000Z2004-10-05T10:20:39.480ZFellowship: Irish Studies
LADY GREGORY FELLOWSHIPS
The Faculty of Arts at National University of Ireland, Galway, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Lady Gregory Fellowships. These prestigious fellowships, tenable for a period of three years, are named in honour of the memory of Lady Gregory, her contribution to the Arts and her links to the West of Ireland. High-achieving Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096971488905506742004-10-05T10:15:00.000Z2004-10-05T10:18:08.906ZLecture: Thursday 7th October, 2004
Pehnomenology at the Limits Lecture
WHY PEOPLE FAIL TO CATCH LIARS AND HOW WE CAN IMPROVE
Professor Aldert Vrij,
Professor of Social PsychologyUniversity of Portsmouth
To be held in:The Lecture Theatre, Department of Academic Psychiatry,
The Longley Centre, Sheffield.
Convenor: Dr Sean Spence
Talk begins at 5.30pm - Refreshments available from 5.00pm.
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096803306069274772004-10-03T11:31:00.000Z2004-10-03T11:35:06.070ZInteresting Link: Alan Sokal and the Social Text Affair
If you have ever encountered the book Intellectual Impostures (also published in the US as Fashionable Nonsense), and would like to know more, or if you're just curious about one of the most high profile hoaxes in recent academic history, here's an archive of material on it all ...
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096802995565924692004-10-03T11:29:00.000Z2004-10-03T11:29:55.566ZInteresting Link: The Anatomy of a Postmodernism generator
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/pub_search?104+1996+bulhak+Postmodernism
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096802859337764472004-10-03T11:25:00.000Z2004-10-03T11:27:39.336ZInteresting Link: Crucial, Indispensible Essays on Postmodernism
Make sure you read down to the bottom of the page ...
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096726637967920202004-10-02T14:15:00.000Z2004-10-02T14:17:17.966ZNews: Creative Commons Compilation CD
This Compilation CD Is Meant To Be Copied and Shared
By ETHAN SMITH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 20, 2004; Page B1
For more than a year, the music industry has held firm on its zero-tolerance position on online file swapping, suing 4,679 alleged digital pirates to drive its point home.
But now, 16 high-profile artists, many of themAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096721774224715422004-10-02T13:55:00.000Z2004-10-02T12:56:14.223ZNews: Protection plea for reef fish
BBC
The humphead wrasse is a prized delicacy around South East AsiaA rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from overfishing, experts have claimed.
The WWF and the IUCN-World Conservation Union are set to ask an international trade watchdog to include the fish on its list of protected species.
more
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096721619046203712004-10-02T13:52:00.000Z2004-10-02T12:53:39.046ZNews: Sony Japan dumps lock-down CDs
The Register
By Tony Smith
Published Friday 1st October 2004 11:45 GMT
One music label, at least, is turning its back on CD copy-protection. Japan's Sony Music Entertainment yesterday revealed it intends to junk its own copy-control system, Label Gate*.
The technology was introduced in January 2003, but this month will see the last discs issued with the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096721538991030922004-10-02T13:50:00.000Z2004-10-02T12:52:18.990ZNews: UK music biz set to sue file-sharers
The Register
By Tony Smith
Published Friday 1st October 2004 14:14 GMT
The UK music industry has been threatening local file-sharers with Recording Industry Ass. of America-style lawsuits since late last year, but it finally seems to be gearing up to take action.
Industry sourced cited by today's Times newspaper claim that the writs will start to flyAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096721416086943282004-10-02T13:48:00.000Z2004-10-02T12:50:16.086ZNews: RIAA hunts down more file-trading scum
The Register
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Friday 1st October 2004 19:29 GMT
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) knows how to kick off the back-to-school season with a splash, sending out another load of lawsuits to collegians everywhere.
The music-labels' front man sued 762 more file-trading evil-doers, pushing its grand Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096721202312847972004-10-02T13:44:00.000Z2004-10-02T12:46:42.313ZNews: US music targets more 'pirates'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3707160.stmMore people are using legitimate download servicesThe US record industry is suing 32 people at 26 colleges across the country in an effort to stamp out illegal downloading.
Several record companies say the individuals used university networks to illegally distribute material on file-swapping services. The Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096715606376172792004-10-02T11:04:00.000Z2004-10-02T11:18:38.483ZCopyright, Summary Judgement: Diebold, inc. and Diebold Election Systems
ONLINE POLICY GROUP, NELSON CHU PAVLOSKY, and LUKE THOMAS SMITH,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED, and DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED,
Defendants.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION
For full details, see:
Case Number C 03-04913 JF
Background to the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096647590928835462004-10-01T16:17:00.000Z2004-10-01T16:19:50.926ZCall for papers: Political Activism, History
University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/usjch
Activism and Social Movements
University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History is an innovative, refereed on-line journal that seeks to provide a medium for publication in the postgraduate community and to disseminate creative, critical, and Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096647112532699702004-10-01T16:07:00.000Z2004-10-01T16:11:52.533ZCall for Submissions: 3 Notes and Running
SEPTEMBER 15, 2004:
Michael Bell-Smith and Downhill Battle are seeking submissions for 3 Notes and Runnin', an online music compilation commemorating and protesting The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Case No. 01-00412.
In the case, the court found that NWA violated copyright law when they sampled 3 notes of a guitar riff from Funkadelic's "Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096645650250781292004-10-01T15:43:00.000Z2004-10-01T15:47:30.250ZCall for Papers: Gender and the Imagined City
Gender, creativity, transformation: How contemporary European women represent real and virtual cities in order to promote social changes
Friday June 17 2005
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Call for Papers
This conference seeks to explore ways in which a range of Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096645344748293062004-10-01T14:52:00.000Z2004-10-01T15:43:45.013ZNews: Irish Traditional Culture, Cultural Policy
Last Tuesday, 28th September, the Arts Council of Ireland published Towards a Policy for the Traditional Arts. The report is available to download in either Irish (language) or English, and hard copies are also available from Arts Council reception. Further information: Michelle Hoctor, Press and Communications Officer, The Arts Council, Tel 01 Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096549696175618472004-09-30T13:04:00.000Z2004-09-30T13:08:16.176ZBlog: Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Research
http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/postcolonialaoir/
Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096548714509635572004-09-30T12:48:00.000Z2004-09-30T12:51:54.510ZCall for Papers: Cultural Studies, Qualitative Research
The second conference on Text, Interaction and Communities
Qualitative Approaches to Society and Social Action
May 25.-26. 2005, University of Tampere, Finland
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/conf/
Qualitative research is increasingly characterised by a diversity of approaches. The aim of this conference is to encourage dialogue among Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096537055527291862004-09-30T09:33:00.000Z2004-09-30T09:37:35.526ZArticle: Howard Zinn, The Optimism of Uncertainty
The Optimism of Uncertainty
by Howard Zinn
[posted online on September 2, 2004 at The Nation]
In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy?
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096471842121382322004-09-29T15:28:00.000Z2004-09-29T15:30:42.120ZBook review (2003): Barbed Wire: A Political History
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Mar2003/booktwo0303.html
Barbed Wire: A Political History
by Olivier Razac; translated by Jonathan Kneight(New York: New Press, 2002;132 pp.)
Review by Christopher Capozzola
When barbed wire was first introduced in 1876, no one believed that it would work, so a young promoter named John Gates organized a Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096464850863746102004-09-29T13:28:00.000Z2004-09-29T13:34:10.863ZNew Publication: Securing Land and Resource Rights in Africa: Pan-African Perspectives
Securing Land and Resource Rights in Africa: Pan-African Perspectives has just come out in print. It is published by the Pan-African Program on Land and Resource Rights (PAPLRR).
The collaborative partners of PAPLRR are: the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS - http://www.uwc.ac.za/plaas), School Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096456964055258812004-09-29T11:10:00.000Z2004-09-29T11:22:44.056ZNews: Resistance Within WIPO
It is interesting to me that the following resistance is emerging within WIPO, but it still leaves the most fundamental issues untouched - belief in intellectual property thinking as valid for making sense of human relationship, belief in economic incentive as the primary way to make sense of human motivation and creativity, and the existence of WIPO at all as an Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096456136950836432004-09-29T11:06:00.000Z2004-09-29T11:08:56.950ZNew Book: Copyright, Law, History.
Ronan Deazley, a Lecturer in Law at the University of Durham, has published his long-awaited first book, On the Origin of the Right to Copy: Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth Century Britain (1695-1775).
Hart Publishing Ltd., Salters Boatyard, Folly Bridge, Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4LBUK
Tel: +44 1865 245533Fax: +44 1865 794882
Website httpAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096455890412473142004-09-29T10:56:00.000Z2004-09-29T11:04:50.413ZCall for Autonomous Spaces During the European Social Forum in London, 14-17th October 2004.
Autonomous Spaces are a loose network of individuals, groups, organisations and grass roots communities and who act, think and struggle for another world beyond capitalism.
They are calling to those in the UK, the rest of Europe and those further afield to participate in building alternative autonomous Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096455325155457122004-09-29T10:50:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:55:25.156ZInterview: An Educator’s Reflections on the Crisis in Education and Democracy in the US
Dissident Voice has republished an interview with radical/critical pedagogist Henri A. Giroux.
By Michael Alexander Pozo
www.dissidentvoice.org
September 25, 2004
First Published in Axis of Logic
According to Henry Giroux, critical pedagogy asks, “whose future, story and interests does the school represent?Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096454986739650382004-09-29T10:47:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:49:46.740ZNews: Cancer center to focus its efforts on prevention
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at post-gazette.com
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
By Michelle K. Massie, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has established one of the first centers in the country to examine how to protect individuals and the community at large from environmental factors that can cause Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096454815655114372004-09-29T10:42:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:46:55.656ZCall for Papers: Sound Recording, Archiving, Library Studies, Music, Speech
From the Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
ARSC is now accepting proposals for presentations to be given during its 39th Annual Conference, in Austin, Texas, March 30 to April 2, 2005. The deadline for proposal submissions is November 15, 2004. ARSC is dedicated to the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096454488714498652004-09-29T10:36:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:41:28.713ZCall for papers: Irish Music, Irish Studies, Politics
Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Songs Of Experience: Music and Irish Political Traditions
Final Call for Papers
A one-day interdisciplinary conference will be held in Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick, Ireland on Saturday the 4th December, 2004. Politics has provided rich subject material for Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096454183268408682004-09-29T10:31:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:36:23.266ZThis week I found out about a mailing list that is particularly relevant to my own interests, the commons-law list. The list covers the topics of law, culture, and technology, but, as you might imagine, this is a pretty broad remit. Anyone interested in intellectual property, public domain controversies, technology development, the information commons, common property studies, and associated Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096453861070076012004-09-29T10:28:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:31:01.070ZSorry for the absence of blog entries over the last while. My life has been in a pretty unsteady transition stage over the last number of months. I have made the move from sunny Santa Barbara in California to Sheffield, England, where I have a temporary contract as a lecturer in ethnomusicology. I will hopefully now have the time to devote to keeping this weblog fairly active, with news and Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1096453689095693052004-09-29T10:23:00.000Z2004-09-29T10:28:09.096ZNew Resource: Colonial India
The Digital Colonial Documents Project (India) is a new web resource intended to promote study of the rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period in India. It includes full text versions of the Indian Census Reports for1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901, Murrays Guide to India for 1859, The Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1085762588740263442004-05-28T16:42:00.000Z2004-05-28T16:43:08.740ZEnclosure News Story
Received over the Net this morning ...
"FBI Abducts Artist, Seizes Art:
Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism,
Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body"
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) collective member Steve Kurtz was already suffering from one tragedy when he called 911 early in the morning to tell them his wife had suffered a cardiac arrest and died Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1083202115780324052004-04-29T01:28:00.000Z2004-04-29T01:32:45.310ZSorry for the gap. I've been sick for a while. Only just getting back into the swing of things. Should be able to update some of the website and keep the information feed going again sometime soon when life has truly returned to normal (huh?).Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1078952574784777572004-03-10T21:02:00.000Z2004-03-10T21:05:59.543ZNews Story: Intellectual Property and Fair Use
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/03/nader_wins_pric.html
Nader Wins Priceless Fair Use Victory v. MasterCard
Back in 2000, Ralph Nader ran a bunch of ads critiquing the corporate interests behind the Bush and Gore campaigns. To make his point, he used the style and some of ideas behind MasterCard's "Priceless" ad campaign -- specifically Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1078938304926086842004-03-10T17:05:00.000Z2004-03-10T17:08:09.450ZNews Story: Intellectual Property
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36128.html
MEPs wave through IP rights enforcement
By Lucy Sherriff
Posted: 09/03/2004 at 16:18 GMT
The European Parliament has passed the IP Rights Enforcement Directive, unchanged from its mid February draft.
It includes none of the amendments proposed by civil liberties and consumer rights groups, and sets the scene Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1078938157357830692004-03-10T17:02:00.000Z2004-03-10T17:08:29.060ZSeminar Announcement: Religious Studies, New Religions
Inform Spring Seminar
How Dangerous are the New Religions?
Date: Saturday, 15 May 2004
Time: 9.30am to 5pm
Location: New Theatre, London School of Economics
Presenters will include:
PROF EILEEN BARKER
London School of Economics
MR ANJEM CHOUDARY
The UK Head of Al-Muhajiroun, Lecturer at the London School of Shari'ah & Chairman of The Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1078937809581072742004-03-10T16:56:00.000Z2004-03-10T17:03:06.826ZCall for Papers: Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies, Anthropology
A Reader in Themed Spaces
Mark Gottdiener and Scott A. Lukas, editors
The editors of a major volume on Themed Spaces are seeking contributions to the collection. The work will include selections organized into major tropes, including the structural, semiotic, experiential and political aspects of themed spaces.
Themed spaces Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1078937335783065482004-03-10T16:48:00.000Z2004-03-10T16:51:59.686ZCONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
CFP ends 15 March 2004
Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice
3rd annual Tourism and Festival Research Conference
Innsbruck, Austria, 5-7 May 2004
Journeys of Expression III is a three day academic conference being held in Innsbruck, Austria from 5 to 7 May 2004. It is being co-organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1077934480919202172004-02-28T02:14:00.000Z2004-02-28T02:17:29.936ZWebsite Announcement: Social Interactionism, Sociology
A new website has been launched, dedicated to the life and work of Anselm Strauss, a key contributor to understandings of the concept of negotiation:
http://www.ucsf.edu/anselmstrauss/
"Sociologist Anselm Strauss was internationally known as a medical sociologist (especially for his pioneering attention to chronic illness and dying) and Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1077817050460393222004-02-26T17:37:00.000Z2004-02-26T17:40:17.373ZArticle: Intellectual Property
by John Dvorak, PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1537393,00.asp
Here is the argument nobody wants to make and the reality nobody wants to face, especially those in the music business. As I write this, the Recording Industry Association of America is announcing another 532 John Doe lawsuits against peer-to-peer file sharers. The RIAA collects the Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1077770202438276742004-02-26T04:36:00.000Z2004-02-26T04:39:28.653ZCall for Papers: Development Studies, Cultural Policy, Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Anthropology
"The Life and Death of Development"
Deadline for Submission: 10th May 2004
The recent World Social Forum in Mumbai, and other events like it, can be said to reflect a generalised crisis in neo-liberal corporate capitalism. The World Social Forum is creating a space, however ambivalent, in Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1077769343053791692004-02-26T04:22:00.000Z2004-02-26T04:25:24.263ZResource Announcement: Archiving
RESOURCE LIST ON AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION NOW AVAILABLE
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections ha sput together a new resource, "Education and Training in Audiovisual Archiving and Preservation." The page, available on the ARSC website at http://www.arsc-audio.org/ETresources.html , lists classes, training
programs and courses on Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240930.post-1077642872563200412004-02-24T17:14:00.000Z2004-02-24T17:17:41.293ZNews Story
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=27547
Subpoenas alert universities
By Dmitri Pikman
DAILY BRUIN REPORTER
dpikman@media.ucla.edu
Students participating in anti-war demonstrations at university campuses across the country have had a tense two weeks. The federal government first issued then retracted a subpoena to Drake University in Iowa, requesting the universityAnthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910521306563215879noreply@blogger.com