Medieval Jewish physician Shabbetai Donnolo encouraged others to copy his work, but he demanded correct authorial attribution and fidelity in copying. … Read the post Donnolo the doctor: asserting rights in early personal authorship
Content that users can reform is more accessible, more useful, more fun, and more valuable. … Read the post users transforming content forms
According to a representative survey of U.S. adult internet users in mid-autumn 2009, social communication is a much more important online activity than is watching video content. Asked to rate independently the importance of various online (Internet) activities, 63% of adult Internet users described “communicating online with friends and family, even if they are far … Continue reading online social communication much more important than online video
Consider by publication year the normalized frequency of “FCC” (U.S. Federal Communications Commission) in the text of a large corpus of books published in the U.S. from 1934 to 2008.[1] While you might think that the communications industry keeps getting more complicated and more contentious, the normalized frequency of FCC references is lower in the … Continue reading challenges to mass media generate interest in FCC
The Shahnameh, an epic that Ferdowsi wrote a millennium ago in Iran, describes eternal content business difficulties. In the concluding section, Ferdowsi laments: Nobles and great men wrote down what I had written without paying me: I watched them from a distance, as if I were a hired servant of theirs. I had nothing from … Continue reading a testament to content business difficulties