Clearing out stored links:

Good Copy, Bad Copy, which got boingboinged awhile back. I’ll be using it the next time I teach IP.

Dylan Hears a Who. When a musician recorded "Green Eggs and Ham" in the voice of vintage Bob Dylan and posted it online, the Grinch estate promptly replied: One fish, two fish, cease and desist.

London Review of Books piece on Disney's artistic limitations and personal practices of originality. Disney was not just an attention-hog but always irritable about the limitations of his own fakery: ‘Disney was continually, if mildly, irked because he could not draw Mickey or Donald or Pluto . . . Even more embarrassingly, he could not accurately duplicate the familiar “Walt Disney” signature that appeared as a trademark on all his products. As Mister Husband pointed out to me when he sent it, not only did the man sign everyone else’s hard work, he was signing with a signature he had asked a studio employee to redesign.

Remember that interview on women and blogs that I did a year ago and then forgot about? I was doing some vanity googling, and found the article in the Hindu Business Online and Domains Magazine. The latter wins for most misogynist title. Since when does representing half of anything count as ‘hogging’? Only when women do it, apparently.

The new journal Writing Technologies looks promising.

The Encyclopedia of Life aims to provide a free, public electronic page for each species of organism on Earth. There's some things to be said here about why this project should or shouldn't be rolled into other major digital encyclopedic projects like Wikipedia. Personally, I think a unified project has the most value.

QB discusses Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Aaand a note-to-self to retrieve "Law Booksellers and Printers As Agents of Unchange" (2007) Cambridge Law Journal, vol 66, issue 2, p 389. Also Katharina de la Durantaye, "Origins of the Protection of Literary Authorship in Ancient Rome". Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 07-139. Boston University International Law Journal, Spring 2007.