[Linkspam] copyright laws

[edenfalling]

Here is an interesting article on copyright laws, violations thereof, and reactions to said violations. It's part of a series on unenforced American laws, and how non-enforcement is actually a vital and dynamic part of our legal system.

There's an article in this month's Wired magazine that makes a similar point with regard to Japan's doujinshi industry. Cultural sychronicity at work? (I would link to the article, but Google has failed me. *pout* You should go look at the magazine anyway -- it also has an interesting 10-page spread on the history of manga in the US, done as a vaguely shojo manga. The page layout's a little awkward/unclear in places, but it's info, not a story, so it's not too much of a problem.)

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[monkey5s.livejournal.com]

Hm. This month's Wired in our library is the October, 2007 issue. The cover has an image of switchgrass, for the story on ethanol. I don't find the history of manga anywhere- and I really want to read it! Do you already have the November issue in?

[edenfalling]

Yeah, this is the Nov. 2007 issue. The cover is gray with a pink-haired manga-style girl in tight clothes in the foreground, and images representing other articles kind of faded in the background. We just got it in with this Monday's magazine shipment.

What impressed me the most about the 10-page manga spread was that they actually did it from right to left. So you start on page 130, as it were, and read backward to page 120. (Actual page numbers escape me, sorry.)