Bloggasm

I finally got around to reading my boingboing rss feed and came across a bunch of media related links so thought I’d include them all in one post.

1. Cory gives us a behind-the-scenes look at DRM and how big technology and media companies get pro-DRM rules signed into law.

2. Wired has a cool article about how Jamaican music artists basically invented mash-ups and remix albums because of relaxed copyright law in that country.

3. A researcher figured out that an artist only really profits off his copyrighted work for about 14 years before the copyright is virtually useless.

4. A website that specializes in allowing teens to display webcam video is owned by a porn company. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that they’re not very good at dealing with parent complaints about inappropriate webcam video popping up on their site.

5. A Sampling of new words and senses from the new 2007 update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition: “Just two years after a majority of visitors to Merriam-Webster OnLine declared it to be their “Favorite Word (Not in the Dictionary),” the adjective “ginormous” (now officially defined as “extremely large: humongous”), has won a legitimate place in the 2007 copyright update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.”

6. A blogger from China could be thrown in jail simply for posting a link to a site with nude pictures.

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