Word: amateurness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Keefe ’11, Community and Alumni Relations Coordinator for HRDC, says that today, she sees HRDC “coming full circle and embracing all aspects of production.” This includes bringing both students and theater professionals to work on HRDC productions. The combination of amateur and professional theater brings together a fresh, creative view and expert experience with impressive results.The board is excited to show off the hard work and dedication of HRDC at the Centennial Celebration. “I think it’s a great reason for people, who haven?...
...night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left.'" As Lessig explains, "Sousa was not offering a prediction about the evolution of the human voice box. He was describing how a technology ... would change our relationship to culture. These 'machines,' Sousa feared, would lead us away from ... 'amateur' culture. We would become just consumers of culture, not also producers." For his part, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, "was keen that the Web be an RW medium," even though he would eventually capture only a tiny fraction of the money that his invention would...
...American history it was extraordinarily rare for ordinary citizens to trigger copyright law ... RO culture in the digital age is thus open to control in a way that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright law] reaches beyond the professional to control the amateur." And when it comes to prosecuting copyright infringement, Lessig doesn't spare members of his profession: "The threat of litigation is huge, so the payoff to make litigants go away is also huge. The system loves the game; the game therefore never ends...
...facts and cultural curiosity, citing everything from turn-of-the-century Congressional testimony to Wikipedia to contemporary best-sellers like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The result is a wealth of interesting examples and theories on how and why digital technology and copyright law can promote professional and amateur art. As he sees it, reforming copyright law is the only way to salvage it: "We, as a society, can't kill this new form of creativity. We can only criminalize it. We can't stop our kids from using the technologies we give them to remix the culture around...
...presidential mettle? McCain's performance varied, with high points and low points, but no matter what he did on the debate stage, he never forced Obama to lose his bearings. After each contest, polls showed that independent voters clearly decided that Obama came off as neither scary nor an amateur. In most polls, swing voters said Obama won all three debates, by margins as large...