Blog of a crazy man

Anish Kapoor made a sculpture for Chicago’s Millenium Park that looks very much like a chrome jelly bean, but what it looks like isn’t important. When Warren Wimmer tried to take a picture of the sculpture he was told that he needed a permit becasue Kapoor still owns the copyright to the sculpture.

For Wimmer and all the other photographers faced with a situation similar to this: between 1894 and 1909 three court cases took place which granted photographers the right to take pictures of anything displayed in public spaces. These cases are: Pavesich v. N.E. Life Ins. Co., Foster-Milburn Co. v. Chinn, and Coliss v. Walker. This list of court cases comes from Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig.

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It’s a sad day when you find out that the most evil company involved in file-sharing is even more evil then you first believed. Kazaa, it turns out, has been loging downloads and playbacks of all files on its network. To top that off, if the RIAA gets that record, they can find everbody who downloaded a single file, and sue them. I’m glad I don’t use Kazaa. Gnutella all the way.

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