With Both Hands

Sign in Subscribe

Intellectual Property

Alan Dean Foster is in a Copyright Dispute with Disney

#DearMickey #DisneyMustPay According to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, author Alan Dean Foster is in a copyright dispute with Disney. Disney seems to be making the rather bold claim that they only purchased the rights to distribute the works in the Star Wars universe, not the liability

Linkfest 2017-06-16

Is Islam the rock on which the liberal order broke? Razib Khan's Brown Pundits post on whether liberalism broadly construed can stand against the intransigence of Islam. Think wine connoisseurship is nonsense? Blind-tasting data suggest otherwise It is easy to make fun of the expensive culture of wine

Linkfest 2017-04-21

* How Is An Emergency Room Like A Monkey Wrench? Depending on you do the accounting, emergency rooms aren't the most expensive way to get care. * LIBERALISM'S FUTURE If you combine this essay from 2016 by Rusty Reno, editor of First Things, with this 2017 article by

Linkfest 2017-04-07

* The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World A really fun map, and as the article reluctantly notes, not especially credulous about the tall tales travelers shared. * How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons I've linked stories on Uber's evil genius

LinkFest 2016-11-06

This LinkFest has been delayed three weeks. I had better publish it before the election and everything gets falsified! Divided by meaning A great piece on how Americans are divided by their attachments to hearth and home, or the lack thereof. Fascinating to me, since by education and career, I

Patents vs Copyright

Patents vs Copyright

My friend Tom sends along a Google Nwords graph showing the rise of copyright relative to patent in Google's database of books. Patent vs Copyright This is consistent with the idea that copyright is looming larger and larger in our minds, as the term of copyright keeps creeping

Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

Railside Report and Publicly Funded Research

I read an interesting riposte to a popular but controversial education research report known as the Railside Report, after the pseudonym of one of the schools. [courtesy of the Education Realist] Following on the heels of Aaron Schwartz's suicide after his pillorying by the Justice Department, I thought