here, there, sivacracy & derivative work too
Starting .... now! I'm cross-posting my derivative work material to Sivacracy. I feel particularly honored to be blogging along with Siva & Ann Bartow, who have both been out on the front lines for a long while, pointing out injusticies, stupidities, and wrong directions.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm an information activist: a former librarian and media activist who was driven to become a lawyer by the craziness of copyright law, particularly, and IP, privacy, telecomm, and speech broadly. I'm working this year at the NYU Brennan Center for Justice with Marjorie Heins, developing a fair use network. I'm passionate about individual autonomy and assessing/fighting the forces that impact it: economic injustice, state coercion, & cultural practices like religion, sexism, and racism. That sounds dorky enough, but I'll up the ante by adding that I'm also an old-school geek of the science fiction, books, & computer type, so occasionally I burst forth with fannish squees over, for instance, a new Joss Whedon or pirate movie. Followed immediately by sober analyses of its racialized dynamics and inappropriate uses of the terms "piracy", "theft", "stealing" and stolen-lawnmower analogies, I promise.
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