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...Even if the project did technically violate existing copyright law, this legal complication would derive from the obsolescence of copyright law, not the law’s actual intent. After all, the bulk of copyright law was written before digitization or the Internet ever existed. In fact, the true spirit of the copyright statutes has always been to benefit, not detriment, of the academic community. Copyright law is aimed against plagiarizers and pirates, not responsible institutions providing a service for the public good. By opposing digitization, however, publishers are only engaging in an exercise in the manipulation of outdated statutes...
...turns out not everybody has this reaction—two thousand Bostonians rallied against the war last Sunday. But despite the die-in staged by Harvard students outside the Science Center on Friday, I can’t help feeling that the activist spirit that pervaded Harvard two years ago has died. We as a school, and maybe as a generation, have gone back to our day jobs. We’ve lost that spark of anger that led us (literally) out of our classrooms and into the streets. We’ve lost that sense of hope that made...
...Faced with shrinking revenue and investment, the Hong Kong film industry responded as threatened industries often do?it forgot how it became successful in the first place. Gone was the freewheeling spirit that fueled the creativity of the '80s and produced international icons like Jackie Chan. There were exceptions, but too many Hong Kong filmmakers began to churn out timid, formulaic comedies with the same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John...
...both logistically impressive and demonstrated a good deal of professionalism, this particular piece was not endearing. Though the play’s language was at times very witty and very funny, it was difficult to watch such overwhelming cynicism, especially for those viewers who seek theater to uplift the spirit...
...Bacon said "shocked" him into his career. Given that both artists specialized in distorted images, anthropomorphic monsters and screaming faces, the Rosenberg drawings are surprisingly mild. In fact, they are lyrical studies for Picasso's neoclassical works that were criticized at the time as a betrayal of the revolutionary spirit behind his Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 20 years before...