links for 2007-02-27
- Talent imitates, genius steals: Pseudo-Modern Communications “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” (tags: postmodern)
- Boing Boing: Prankster tricks Swiss newspaper into running fake Gucci ad “This guy created a fake ad for Gucci using a photo of himself, and asked the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung to run it, which it did.” (tags: fake advertising funny adbusters)
- Boing Boing: MEP who wrote copyright proposal is an infringer “the Euro MP proposing that Europe turn all infringement (including copyright, patent and trademarks) into criminal offenses – investigated by national police forces, and punishable with long prison sentences – turns out to have used copyrighted Apple g (tags: free-culture ip-maximalism funny)
- Remarkk! » Essay: What is an Open Creative Community? “So what do marketers and tech geeks have in common with half-naked neo-tribal bohemians in the desert?” (tags: free-culture sociology)