Saturday, April 11, 2009

Lunar calendars and "Qualifications"

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Over at Multiple Musings I left a comment in response to the post on Easter. The blogger had written Because first century Jews used a lu...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Reconstructing the Last Supper

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Here are my speculations about the Last Supper: The meal would have been preceded by a blessing over the bread and followed by a grace-after...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

In Praise of Creative Freedom 4: "He took a straight walk up to Washington city"

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This humorous popular song by The Corrigan Brothers discusses President Barack Obama's Irish ancestry. (The genealogical facts are dis...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Video: How copyright extension in sound recordings actually works

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This video from the Open Rights Group does a quick survey of the issues involved in the European proposal to extend the term of exclusive ri...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Are online used-book sales killing the publishing industry?

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In an article in the "Week in Review" section of the Sunday, 28 December 2008 New York Times, David Streitfeld examines the ques...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

"The natural place of creative expression is in the public domain"

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Who Owns Ideas" is available at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/who-owns-ideas/inde...
Friday, August 22, 2008

"Everything has to fall into the public domain sometime"

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An article by Los Angeles Times staff writer Joseph Menn Disney's rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong contains little fresh infor...