Creative professionals ... Two tendentious pieces of legislation are now being sponsored by our “friends” in Congress that will give corporations another big advantage in the arena of “creative rights”.
Bill # H.R.5889 & Bill # S.2913 - These bills effectively release creative work, whose authors or originators cannot be found, to be used by anyone, including major corporations. This will allow large corporations to take advantage of the limited understanding of
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A current Absolut ad running in Mexico has managed to elicit cheers
from Mexicans and (who would have guessed) condemnation from people in
el Norte.
The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA, is a colorful map depicting what
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I recently ran headlong into the wall that is Apple iTunes DRM (also known as FairPlay). What is DRM? The short explanation, for those of you who need it, is that DRM is Apple iTunes' method of protecting music from being "shared" or "pirated". The argumentative
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The Internet Freedom Preservation Act will guarantee Net Neutrality protections for us all.

Big phone and cable companies are trying to get rid of Network
Neutrality, the principle that protects our ability go where we want
and do what we chose online.
We must pass this bill to protect everyone's right to search the Web, share videos and photos,
connect
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