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...Lowdown: Fittingly enough, Lessig's book is a literary remix of sorts. Once dubbed a "philosopher king of Internet law," he writes with a unique mix of legal expertise, historic facts and cultural curiosity, citing everything from turn-of-the-century Congressional testimony to Wikipedia to contemporary best-sellers like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The result is a wealth of interesting examples and theories on how and why digital technology and copyright law can promote professional and amateur art. As he sees it, reforming copyright law is the only way to salvage it: "We, as a society...
...examples of fantastical animals and insects (which are rarely spotted outside of a museum), make it well worth the trip up Oxford Street, if only for the opportunity to revisit childhood fantasies of living out “The Jungle Book” or “The Lion King...
...nervous / Then observe my work and see that my adversity was worth it.” Gone is the prattling that cluttered previous albums like the junky concept album “T.I. vs T.I.P.” or many of the tracks on “King.” There’s more direction on “Paper Trail,” which turns away from glorifications of the drug game and highlights T.I.’s more profound moments. That isn’t to say that the gloating is gone...
...This "youth bulge" will create a demand for 6 million residential units in the next 12 years; that's a million more units than were built in the past 60 years. "When you have demand on that scale, you can't think small," says Fawaz al-Alamy, who advises King Abdullah on economic issues. "Big problems need big solutions...
...union halls, in corporate boardrooms and in the media for decades. What is different in this new era is the scale and speed of the coming challenge, which will see hundreds of companies from developing countries charging at us relentlessly, from all sides, like a modern version of king of the hill. Are we ready...