Listen to the Music from the Book
Chapter 6 of the book describes the history of a single song — a protest at the government’s handling of Hurricane Katrina called George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People. It traces the origins of...
View ArticleVideos from Open Innovation Conference at NESTA
Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) had a conference last week on open innovation in culture and science. I got to set the stage but the other talks… were far...
View ArticleHow We Write a Comic
I am hard at work writing our new comic on the history of musical borrowing, with my two brilliant co-authors, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki. After our first comic (which has been downloaded over...
View ArticlePlato on Remix
Sometimes the past sends you wonderful quotations and images… One of the reasons why the comic drafting process is so much fun… (Picture updated — thanks Blaise, for keeping me honest…)
View ArticleTom Bell thinks © extensions are Mickey Mouse..
Tom Bell is a thoughtful and provocative copyright scholar whose work I follow with interest. On Technoliberation, he has a nice graph showing a.) the astounding term extensions over the history of...
View ArticleApple Updates — A Comic
Ever been utterly frustrated, made furious, by an Apple upgrade that made things worse? This post is for you. (With apologies to Randall Munroe.) In 2001 a Space Odyssey, if Hal had been made by...
View ArticleTheft: A History of Music — Free Comic
It is done! We are delighted to announce the publication of our new comic book — Theft: A History of Music, a graphic novel laying out a 2000 year long history of music from Plato to rap. The comic...
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