Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

Archive for the 'copyright' Category

Digitial Barbarism

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Just bought Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto by Mark Halperin and am very much looking forward to reading it. From the publisher: Renowned novelist Mark Helprin offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language, and collectivist bias against the rights of individual […]

Copyright and the Web

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

My friend Kirstin Morrell drew this fascinating article entitled “How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer,” from The Register, to my attention. In general, it’s about how the web has been demolishing the ability of creative people to make a living; in particular, it’s a photojournalist’s perspective on that. In light of all the […]