The booming success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has dropped a bomb on the music biz
Activision insists it obtained proper licensing to include the song in the game, and says the band is on a fishing expedition. “What they did was file for a preliminary injunction over the Thanksgiving holiday trying to disrupt sales of…
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling appeared in a New York courtroom last week to defend copyright infringement charges against Vander Ark, the creator of the unauthorized Harry Potter Lexicon web site, after plans were revealed for a book version. While some commenters attacked the site as “something parasitic on years of hard work by Rowling,” the
“Jacques Leslie's “The Last Empire” is the best article I've read in the last 10 years?on any subject?in any magazine. It brings to focus the huge problem we have: China's massive population becoming more and more…
