Tagged: sffs

Don't worry. You're not the only one confused by the landscape of laws surrounding sampling, DRM, remixing and similar music/new media issues. Thankfully, web activist Brett Gaylor will be screening his recent film RiP: A Remix Manifesto at the Mezzanine tomorrow night. The film features hot-topic performer Girl Talk and attempts to demystify and explore current copyright and intellectual property law issues. Girl Talk is the prime subject for the film. The man behind the moniker, Greg Gillis, is a pioneer in [...]

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. When I was in high school, I read a fair amount of science fiction and fantasy. Heinlein, Tolkien, Asimov... even Terry Brooks made up my reading list for a couple of months until I lost interest in the genres and developed a love for literary fiction. As I grew older, I began to realize that genre is less important than the writing, but I still haven't read many SF/F books, so I [...]