POPCULT will be going on hiatus for a little while. We're currently prepping for a full website facelift. I'm working with the my friend Simon Loffler to create an entirely unique and different design concept for the website. Once it's up and running ...Read More
This article analogises the term of copyright, in particular the continuation of protection for 70 years after the death of the creator (in many countries), with zombies. Content, like the bodies of the living reanimated after death, lingers on for ...Read More
I got a Facebook message from a friend of mine this afternoon asking me if tweets on Twitter were protected by copyright. In particular, he wanted to know in light of the logies tweeting fiasco and The Age's The Herald ...Read More
Pacific Fibre, a New Zealand company set up to "unleash broadband at all times of the day", have announced plans to build another trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables in competition with the network owned by Southern Cross Cables. Clocking in at an estimated NZ$900 ...Read More
Congratulations are in order for Luis Acosta, winner of the NYC Condom wrapper design competition run by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Decided by popular vote, Acosta's design, featuring a yellow power symbol (IEC 5009 - line partially within a broken circle), ...Read More
In a bid to be 'returned result A' in the list of suitors for Google's announced 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home network experiment, the City of Topeka, capital city of Kansas in the United States, will be known as 'Google, Kansas – The Capital City of Fibre Optics' ...Read More
Ok Go's new film clip for "This too shall pass" shits all over Honda's Accord 'Cog' commercial (Find 'Cog' under adverts on Honda TV). Watch as a Rube Goldberg contraption utilises the domino effect to fire paint into the band member's face. ...Read More
Everyone's playing host to a club night these days.San Fran Reverend Bertie Pearson has been hosting EpiscoDisco in the house of our lord at Grace Cathedral for almost a year! I read about it on GOOD. The free monthly events carry ...Read More
I'm sure many of you have heard about Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy's speculations on Channel 9's coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games about the sexual orientation of male ice skaters. I certainly don't agree with perpetuating ridiculous stereotypes on ...Read More
It seems the place of fringe festivals in the arts and (sub)cultural landscape is as fickle as fringes in the world of hairdressing! Sydney's decided they're bringing the fringe back with the (new) Sydney Fringe Festival to be held in September ...Read More
Vivienne Westwood used London Fashion Week as a platform to not sell her clothing... That's right, after showing her Red Label Autum /Winter 2010 collection the 'former-punk' reportedly pleaded for people to, "Stop all this consumerism" at one of the most prestigious ...Read More
So I'm back on the blog again, after far too long of hating the layout of this blog but not getting off my arse and doing something about it (although, if you want to redevelop and design it for me, ...Read More
This article explores the realities of the permissions culture and "all rights reserved copyright" in the networked environment and poses the question: why is lending a copy of a book sharing but emailing a PDF of it piracy? It explores ...Read More
Earlier this evening I ducked over to the QUT Creative Industries Precinct to see Adam Greenfield talk at the first of NICTA's Big Picture Seminar Series. I love this photo of him: Photo: The Good Life by slavin fpo He's one of ...Read More
Just a quick note to say that the Productivity Commission has released their report on the current restrictions on parallel importation of books under the Copyright Act 1968. Information on the scope and objectives of the Commission’s review are available ...Read More
As the end of work approached this evening I was stuck with two options: go home, finish my Master of Arts assignment, or go and listen to a panel about music and fashion. So I found myself in attendance of ...Read More
On Monday Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay presented a proposal (PDF, Doc) for a treaty that would see the introduction of harmonised copyright exceptions across World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) countries. The proposal, which was tabled at the 18th session ...Read More
Professor Anne Fitzgerald and Neale Hooper from QUT’s Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project discussed the impact of Crown copyright in Australia. Crown copyright is a copyright doctrine that has developed in the Commonwealth nations that affords protection to ...Read More
Queensland University of Technology was one of the first institutions in Australia to establish a publicly accessible scholarly research repository. QUT introduced an institution-wide policy for open access in January 2004 which led to the establishment of the ePrints repository. ...Read More