Dtek Industries

some of you will remember Jason and Leigh Morfoot (aka Kinobserver) from their "Capital" film project, centered on the IMF conference and protests in DC many years ago.

for the past few years, thy've been working on a documentary film about copyright, how it's changing in light of digital/networked technologies, and the implications for our culture. from their web site: "CITIZEN 3.0 explores the relationship between media, technology, culture and democracy through the lens of copyright law."

recently, i helped them publish the entire film on their web site. check it out!

i've been reading an incredible book called The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler. the subtitle is "How social production transforms markets and freedom". the title is obviously a reference to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which is the original "liberal" in "neoliberal" -- the bible of modern free-marketism.

i'm reading an incredible book by Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. (his site is down at the moment, so you might try the wikipedia article instead.)

more on that later, but it made me extra tuned in when Slashdot pointed me today to an article on arstechnica.com about a ridiculous and offensive new bill being put forth in Congress: the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008.