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The Supreme Court doesn’t understand software, and that’s a problem – Vox
“Patent litigation has become a huge problem for the software industry. And on Thursday, the Supreme Court could have solved that problem with the stroke of a pen. Precedents dating back to the 1970s place strict limits on software patents. The court could have clearly reiterated that those old precedents still apply, and that they […]
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On Art Activism | e-flux
“One can aestheticize the world—and at the same time act within it. In fact, total aestheticization does not block political action; it enhances it. Total aestheticization means that we see the current status quo as already dead, already abolished. And it means further that every action that is directed towards the stabilization of the status […]
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The Case Against Sharing — Medium
The sharing economy’s success is inextricably tied to the economic recession, making new American poverty palatable. It’s disaster capitalism. “Sharing” companies are not embarrassed by this — it appears to be a point of pride. via The Case Against Sharing — Medium.
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Fare Dodging Is an Organized Rebellion in Stockholm, and It’s Winning – NYTimes.com
“For over a decade, Mr. Tengblad has belonged to a group known as Planka.nu rough translation: “free-ride.now”, an organization with only two prerequisites for admission: Members must pay a monthly fee of about $15 and, as part of a continuous demonstration against the fare, promise to evade payment every time they ride. If travelers keep […]
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Liberal arts college library directors ask publishers to ease ebook licensing restrictions | Inside Higher Ed
Library directors at 66 liberal arts colleges on Friday called for academic libraries to reject licensing agreements with publishers that impose restrictions on how ebooks can be accessed and shared. In a statement released by the Oberlin Group, a consortium of 80 liberal arts college libraries, the directors point to the “ecosystem of sharing” that […]
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Free Libraries For Every Soul: Dreaming of the online library
Public Library provides a proposal for how we might design a library for the digital age, and there is much that sceptics of digital reading will find to criticise. To them, I say that it is perhaps better to understand Public Library as an artwork rather than an answer. David Garcia suggests that Public Library substitutes Joseph Beuys’s […]