Total Eclipse

“You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information train is jammed, man!” – the character of Jeffery Goines, in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. A disturbing thought has occurred to me, one which relates to a mess of other thoughts concerning our culture and it’s biases. [...]

Cory Doctorow has recently posted a couple of interesting posts having to deal with ‘fanfiction’ on the best blog on all of the internets, BoingBoing. There is a notion of “original” work compared with “derivative” work, and the legal differences between these supposed separate states of affair. Creators hold intellectual property rights to their works [...]