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...This week, while Harvard kids cried out that the shortening of their tailgate meant the end of their annual state school role-playing fantasy, Queen’s—an actual state school—pulled the plug on its Harvard-Yale analog until at least 2011. Alumni will instead be wooed back to campus for lower-key reunion events in May, after the undergraduate population has quit campus for the summer...
...from family albums in Sydney, Tokyo, and Norway. She also draws on the large-scale collection of images. This may be a reaction to the contemporary era in which, as she said on Sunday, “much is not being saved.” The current transition from analog to digital photography will likely change Tan’s relationship with the image. “Going through the [digital] archive is not the same,” Tan said, adding that, “serendipitous research” is not possible in the same...
...instances in which something accidentally does happen, but then you think, wow it looks really cool,” Bergeron said. Sturtevant also pointed out this difference: “There’s a certain look you associate with old film. There’s something about that analog look you can’t duplicate, even with software.” In addition, Sturtevant feels that a social aspect of the home movie has been lost with the growth of video recording. “With home movies made on film you would actually have to wait...
...your computer. The same is not true when you crack open a book: "For most of 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...
...birth of the "Copyright Wars": According to Lessig, the war began during the fall of 1995, when members of the "content industry" (read: media giants) began to grasp the implications of digital technology on copyright enforcement. (An analog tape was difficult to copy and disseminate. An MP3 file, on the other hand, just required the click of a mouse). "What before was both impossible and illegal is now just illegal," Lessig explains. In September of that year, movie studios and record labels met with the Commerce Department to map out a new legal strategy. The wildly popular and ill-fated...