July 29, 2015 » MobyLives! Archives

This week in legislative ineptitude: State of Georgia wildly misconstrues purpose and meaning of the word “copyright”, sues man for helping people understand the law of the land

An interesting story has been unfolding over at TechDirt the last couple of weeks. As reported by Mike Masnick, Carl Malamud, owner and operator of the transparency advocacy group Public.Resource.Org,… Read more »

Mein Kampf to be published in Germany for the first time since 1945 — Simon Reichley
Who wrote Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl? — Taylor Sperry
Author accuses 60 Minutes of stealing idea from his book — Julia Fleischaker
British broadband providers shut down access to ebook piracy sites — Liam O'Brien

Why was the synthesizer so crucial to Krautrock?

David Stubbs

This is an excerpt from Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music. Click here to purchase the book. Crucial to Krautrock’s drive to lay new foundations was… Read more »

NEH launches the Public Scholar Program to encourage general interest in humanities projects

Julia Fleischaker

According to Ron Charles at The Washington Post, the National Endowment for the Humanities is aiming to change the attitudes as well as the economics of writing scholarship with their… Read more »

Ursula Le Guin launches a fiction workshop, is inundated with requests within a day

Nick Davies

At age 86, acclaimed fantasy/sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin is still eager to help aspiring authors work on their writing. To that end, Calvin Reid reports for Publishers Weekly, she’s… Read more »