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Understanding the Art Market Thomas Galbraith,... - artnet on Tumblr
May 20, 2012 Understanding the Art Market Thomas Galbraith, director of analytics at artnet, discusses with The Street the art market, what The Scream famously achieved, whether a crash is coming, and how the new artnet Indices and artnet Analytics Reports makes sense of it all. Tags: art market, analytics, videos 1 note Share
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
A Journey Round My Skull: Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death
Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century.
Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death China Sketch, January 1937 "Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death" Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou Modern Sketch, November 1935 China Sketch, November 1936 "China as sleeping giant. 'Give me Liberty or Death.'" Illustrator: Li Xuan "A Typical Chinese," 1936 photomontage "Assorted Pictures from the North," 1934 Photomontage artist: Fen Zi-li
China Sketch, January 1937
"Santa Claus delivers a new child into a world of violence and death"
Illustrator: Zhu Jin-lou
Modern Sketch, November 1935
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“Code Is Law”—Lessig
Liberating America's secret, for-pay laws
By Carl Malamud at 10:29 pm Monday, Mar 19
[Editor's note: This morning, I found a an enormous, 30Lb box waiting for me at my post-office box. Affixed to it was a sticker warning me that by accepting this box into my possession, I was making myself liable for nearly $11 million in damages. The box was full of paper, and printed on the paper were US laws -- laws that no one is allowed to publish or distribute without permission. Carl Malamud, Boing Boing's favorite rogue archivist, is the guy who sent me this glorious box of weird (here are the unboxing pics for your pleasure). I was expecting it, because he asked me in advance if I minded being one of the 73 entities who'd receive this law-bomb on deposit. I was only too glad to accept -- on the condition that Carl write us a guest editorial explaining what this was all about. He was true to his word. -Cory]
Boing Boing Official Guest Memorandum of Law
To:
The Standards People
Cc:
The Rest of Us People
From:
Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org
In Re:
Our Right to Replicate the Law Without a License
I. “Code Is Law”—Lessig
Did you know that vital parts of the US law are secret, and you're only allowed to read them if you pay a standards body thousands of dollars for the right to find out what the law of the land is?
Public.Resource.Org spent $7,414.26 buying privately-produced technical public safety standards that have been incorporated into U.S. federal law. These public safety standards govern and protect a wide range of activity, from how bicycle helmets are constructed to how to test for lead in water to the safety characteristics of hearing aids and protective footwear. We have started copying those 73 standards despite the fact they are festooned with copyright warnings, shrinkwrap agreements, and other dire warnings. The reason we are making those copies is because citizens have the right to read and speak the laws that we are required to obey and which are critical to the public safety.
When Peter Veeck posted the Building Code of Savoy, Texas on the Web, the standards people came after him with a legal baseball bat. The standards people run private nonprofit organizations that draft model laws that states then adopt as law, through a mechanism known as incorporation by reference.
Peter thought the people of his town should be able to read the law that governed them. But the standards people were adamant that the model building codes were their copyright-protected property and that nobody could post this information without a license, nobody could copy their property without paying the tollmaster.
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