I've been dealing this week with annoying dentistry, weirdly scheduled PTSA meetings, clients whose credit cards are not appreciated by the PTO website and the fun of trying to figure out what type of entity to be for INTA next year, and, of course, re-reading reviews of Philosopher's Stone that were posted in FictionAlley Park a year ago today ( ( Read more... )

Today's New York Times has an article about D.J. Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, and whose new album is one of the first mainstream releases to claim fair use in his new album “Feed the Animals,” which he released online at illegalart.net earlier this summer ( Read more... )

This is a drive-by posting - I had my 20th high school reunion last night, and ahave two birthday things today (including Catie's 3rd birthday dinner tonight) but I've seen a lot of people on my flist really fretful this weekend about that article about "proposed" "Orphaned Works" legislation, and I'm going to recommend you read this BoingBoing ( Read more... )

There was a lot of discussion this summer about stories about people who are "underage" engaging in sexual activity, and some nasty words were thrown at those who write about people under the age of 18 engaging in sexual activity, even where said people live in countries where it is (a) legal to engage in sexual activity when under the age of 18, ( Read more... )

Supernatural and (omg what am I doing?) RPS!

Yes, you heard me. AI!RPS at that.

No! Don't run away! There's a reason I'm reccing it!

jlh has recently started posting a set-in-1962 Chris/Blake fic entitled Radio Friendly. Now, those of you who've read this LJ over the last x-number of years know that in my life, I've maybe watched one ep of AI. I ( Read more... )

I get a Yahoo news alert each day for any news stories that include the words "fanfiction", "fanfic" or "fan fiction", and an interesting "story" showed up today.

It seems that Fox Television Stations, Inc. are in the process of updating the Terms of Use for their websites, and the Atlanta station's TOU update somehow twigged Yahoo's "news" ( Read more... )

This is probably
Not what Alex wanted, but
It makes lawyers smile.

Discussion topic of the day: Someone posted the images shown ( here )

I am of two minds about today's ruling regarding "virtual child porn ( Read more... )

This week, it came to my attention that in February, the Ninth Curcuit Court of Appeals, in Kelly v Arriba Soft Corp., held that under certain circumstances, it was illegal to link from one website to another. The court, not unreasonably, said that Ditto, the directory-site, could not use the fair use exception to justify links to "thumbnail" ( Read more... )