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25th June 2004

Prelude to a Fake Complaint

“Senator Orrin Hatch and his colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee have introduced the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act (’The Induce Act’) this week. They want us to think the Act is no big deal, and that it targets only the bad guys while leaving the good guys alone. They say that it doesn’t change the law; it just clarifies it. But they’re wrong. And this legal complaint is the proof.”

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25th June 2004

Working out our Play Muscle

“Kevin Carroll, whose job is to nurture creativity at Nike, told HOW magazine that he likes to watch recess all over the world and always finds that it inspires him. He elaborates in the same interview: ‘Wouldn’t in be marvelous if we could actually capture that and take it with us into our adult lives ó into high school and college and beyond? We’d be better for it. I don’t think we’d have as difficult a time recognizing what brings us joy, what tickles our brain. If we have no outlet, our play muscles atrophy. So we wind up being adults who just exist, who aren’t living.’”

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