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November
2002
“The laws governing ‘intellectual property’ have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork — as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s — will now land you in court. If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never have existed. The irony here couldn’t be more stark. Rooted in the U.S. Constitution, copyright was originally intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas but is now being used to stifle it. The Illegal Art Exhibit will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the ‘degenerate art’ of a corporate age: Art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court.”
posted in Copyright/TM | Permalink |
1st
November
2002
“…here’s the list of sites using CSS without tables except in the case of data tabulation, which is the purpose of tables. This was put up from the Web Nouveau’s cache, so it’s not perfect. Since I haven’t been able to reach Donimo, I went ahead and posted the list with credit to him. If he has an issue, I will take it down.”
posted in CSS | Permalink |
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November
2002
“The Shortlist Music Project honors today’s most creative and adventurous albums, focusing on emerging artists rather than established hitmakers. ‘We needed something different, and it had to be artists and people who care about the music to pull together and organize it,’ explains Talib Kweli, one of ten Shortlist Finalists for last year’s inaugural award. ‘The idea is for everybody to check out all of the [nominated] records and explore a little bit,’ explained returning Listmaker Beck at the Shortlist Awards Concert last November.”
posted in Music | Permalink |
1st
November
2002
“Build a face by selecting from a top and bottom portion in the grid… Eric Myer is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in environmental portraiture.”
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