It is significant that “culture” is sometimes described as a map; it is the analogy which occurs to an outsider who has to find his way around in a foreign landscape and who compensates for his lack of practical mastery, the prerogative of the native, by the use of a model of all possible routes.
— Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 1977
What does it mean to our culture that we have imposed the most draconian restrictions on the reuse of intellectual creations than at any other time?
In "Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society," Jack Balkin (of the blog Balkinization) writes about what he sees as the appropriation of free speech ideals by media corporations in an effort to maximize their capital investments.
Myth #4 in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion is Syed Nomanul Haq's article entitled "That Medieval Islamic Culture was Inhospitable to Science."
What modern copyright law means to our culture
I'm currently a graduate student of the history of law and technology at the University of California, San Diego. I also provide law and technology consulting services.
Additionally, I'm a non-practicing lawyer and former developer/sysadmin at a biotech non-profit. For more about me and my work, see krisnelson.org or my Google Profile. Post title: Culture as a Map
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