GirlTalk, featured prominently in the\u00a0RIP Manifesto<\/em>, is from Pittsburgh (yeah!) and took his name from this abomination of a 1980s board game<\/a>.<\/p>\n The “Let’s go crazy” Youtube baby dancing case, in which it was decided that Youtube needed to consider the possibility of fair use exception prior to taking down media:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s the cute baby video<\/a>.<\/p>\n These go to 11.<\/a> (This is Spinal Tap, 1984)<\/p>\n Free Software<\/strong><\/p>\n GNU is important for the Linux (or GNU\/Linux) operating system and what we now generally know as open source software (although see Stallman’s comment in the manifesto about how much he despises the corruption of Free Software by Open Source).<\/p>\n Connection to the music industry model?<\/p>\n Restricting copying is not the only basis for business in software. It is the most common basis(7)<\/a> because it brings in the most money. If it were prohibited, or rejected by the customer, software business would move to other bases of organization which are now used less often. There are always numerous ways to organize any kind of business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This section is relevant to our discussion on 9\/6 about copyrights and patents and incentivizing creation:<\/p>\n \u201cDon’t people have a right to control how their creativity is used?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Stallman proposes alternative business models, some of which are in operation now.<\/p>\n Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/use-remix\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Lessig talk<\/strong><\/p>\n Is this the way kids write today? Is this a generational battle?<\/p>\n The long 20th century broadcast era, read-only culture. Here’s the 1984 Mac ad<\/a> that Lessig showcases.<\/p>\n Intro to Markdown<\/strong><\/p>\n Go to Dillinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n What is markup?<\/strong><\/p>\n We do it with paragraphs and punctuation, a way to give context to the content of words. We’re using\u00a0descriptive markup<\/em> with Markdown. Just symbols to describe how certain elements of a document should be categorized and rendered.<\/p>\n Separation of form & content or structure and content. Types of markup<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note: There are lots of different versions of Markdown, which add features to Gruber’s original specs. Because computer people like jargon, they call these “flavors” of Markdown. We’ll mostly be using Github-flavored Markdown, or GFM.<\/p>\n Advantages of markup?<\/strong><\/p>\n Stolley’s\u00a0Lo-Fi Manifesto<\/em><\/p>\n Doing stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n Together: Look at the structure of the schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n Play around with markup by turning our schedule into markup on\u00a0Dillinger<\/a>\u00a0and on StackEdit<\/a> (more on StackEdit’s features<\/a>). If that’s a breeze for you, try synchronizing your StackEdit document onto your Google drive or Dropbox account. Or add some YAML front matter tags and synch to CouchDB.<\/p>\n GFM supports tables (which the original spec didn’t). Learn more about how to format tables in GFM here<\/a>.<\/p>\n More Markdown<\/p>\nSeptember 8<\/h3>\n
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