Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’ Pay Artists, Not ‘Owners’
Eben Moglen has been representing parties sued by the recording industry and is working on a book about the death of intellectual property.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eben Moglen
The Web Rewires the Movement The Web Rewires the Movement
From MoveOn to meetup.com, the net is facilitating a new citizen insurgency.
Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Andrew Boyd
The War on Academic Freedom The War on Academic Freedom
The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation's thought police.
Nov 11, 2002 / Feature / Kristine McNeil
A 12-Step Program for Media Democracy A 12-Step Program for Media Democracy
These days, it's the media conglomerates who are drunk with power--demanding a larger share of the nation's airwaves and threatening to turn the World Wide Web into an electronic...
Jul 23, 2002 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester and Gary O. Larson
Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned
On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.
Jun 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne G. Carr
Unions on the Net Unions on the Net
Unions are gradually making fuller use of the Internet's capacities to improve communication with their own staffs or members. But increasingly they are also using the web to recr...
Jun 6, 2002 / Feature / Joel Rogers and Richard B. Freeman
Something Old, Something New Something Old, Something New
Media policy need to change in the digital age—but how?
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester and Gary O. Larson
The Army’s Dream Lab The Army’s Dream Lab
The Institute for Creative Technologies makes Star Wars–type simulations for Army personnel
Nov 21, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Friends at Court Friends at Court
The Supreme Court, in the final week of June, handed down three decisions, each of which seems to endorse a valuable social principle. In the first, involving the right...
Jun 28, 2001 / The Editors
Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. --Michel Foucau...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity