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Canadian producer Brad Fox blogs on visual media, and living in the digital wild west

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Entries from August 2009

+1 for Truth / +1 for Nightmarefuel

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

First, brilliant insight: someone saying they’re going to look at YouTube comments is like watching a secondary character in a slasher film decide to wander off into a darkened hallway. You can’t help but think “no, you idiot, don’t do it!” – Mike Sterling I’ll post the third part of my copyright overview this weekend […]

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Tags: welcome to the future

Progressive Copyright: Part II – Whose Content Is It?

August 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments

So in part one of this three part series I wrote about how the commercial lifetime of content is shorter than ever before (awesome). Now lets look at the equivalent bummer on the consumer side; How content delivery formats are obsolete faster than ever. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Just look at […]

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Tags: copyright reform · media ramblings

Progressive Copyright: Part I – Term Limits for Everyone

August 18th, 2009 · 11 Comments

I’ve been staying out of most of the hubub surrounding the government’s copyright consultation partly because I’m trying to save energy for looking at actual proposed legislation (which is where the battle-lines will really matter), and partly because I’ve been busy. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the veneer of “public consultation” by the government […]

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Tags: copyright reform · media ramblings