6.5. Not the best of Wodehouse but still full of his special charm and with a few wonderful moments (most notably Psmith’s appearance at Bickersmythe’s stump speech).
8/10. I have just finished the final volume of Taylor Branch’s monumental trilogy America in the King Years. A fitting end to an incredible effort — though to my mind the first volume remains the best. This work covers the more difficult years faced by King following the major successes of the Civil Rights movement [...]
2/10. A travesty of the film-makers art, dull where it should be emotionally compelling, boring where it should have been funny. One imagines that Ayckbourn’s original play wasn’t half bad but Resnais’s reversioning is an abject lesson in how not to direct. No doubt some the blame lies with the script. However everything from awkward, [...]
Last week I was at the 2007 Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress (also acronymed under the label SERCIAC). The event was a nice size with a good mix of people, well organized (a big thank-you here to Christian Handke) and with many interesting presentations (some of which I was able [...]
Update 2008-05: this paper has now split into two parts:
Optimal Copyright Over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Worsk (published in RERCI, Dec 2007) Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term (wherein can be found an updated optimal copyright term estimate) Original PostHow long should copyright [...]
6.5/10. Seen at the Cambridge Film Festival this ‘deep’ indie feature was made on a shoe-string and written collaboratively with young Liverpublians from a youth centre in Garsett. The film struggles a little at the start, not helped by sound problems and hard to understand accents (one section of the film is briefly subtitled to [...]
Today I’ve been at an interesting ‘mini-conference’ organized by Cambridge University’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, entitled: Inspiration, Interpretation or Infringement? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creativity and Copyright.
The morning session discussed ‘The Nature of the Pirate and the Meanings of Piracy’ while the afternoon was dedicated to ‘The Infringing Act’. The debate is [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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