Tag Archives: Business and Economics

CEA rocks rectum declaring a series of principles to ensure that fair use, home recording rights and innovation are protected in legislative, judicial and regulatory debates regarding the “protection” of intellectual property. Damn straight. CEA unveiled the Declaration during its conference entitled “IP & Creativity: Redefining the Issue,” held March …

Marketing Playbook: The Manual for Growing Organizations The world of business is a strange one. Artsy people often think of corporations as drab, soulless places, but nothing could be further from the truth. Companies are home to many wonders and mysteries, as most anyone who’s worked in one will tell …

Reason number 258 why global trade kicks ass. Could the WTO be the agent of change that finishes off irrational marijuana laws in this country? Tim Wu, who teaches intellectual property and international trade at University of Virginia Law School, thinks it’s a good possibility: The irrationality of U.S. marijuana …

I have been assigned the odious task of searching our IP logs for inappropriate internet content at work, a task I did not ask for, would rather not have, but for which I seem to have an inherent knack. By odd coincidence, on the very day we set out to …

Blogcritics.org is proud to host this week’s nomadic Carnival of the Capitalists, a smorgasbord of penetrating and perceptive peeks into the machinations of economic materialism and its ramifications by so inclined bloggers from around the world and down your street. My eyes were opened – yours will be as well. …

The Michael Jackson trial continued yesterday with testimony from the 18 year-old sister of the alleged victim of sexual abuse, who said she and her two brothers were given alcohol by MJ in the wine cellar of his Neverland Valley Ranch, the entrance to which was hidden behind a jukebox …

Usher, 26, is now part-owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Are you allowed to be part-owner of a major league sports franchise at 26? Of course the majority owner, Quicken Loan magnate Dan Gilbert, is only 42. I choose to see myself as a late bloomer, although it remains possible I …

What is the future of the newspaper? The Bad: the “evening paper” was killed off in the ’70s and ’80s. The circulation of morning papers has dropped annually since 1987, Sunday papers since 1990. For example, the Washington Post has seen average daily circulation drop from 779,898 to 709,500 in …

If you have an unlimited ad budget like Budweiser or the automakers and can afford the repetition throughout the game, maybe it is worth it, but for smaller players shooting their wad on a single showing, I doubt it is. IFILM has its super cool and handy compendium of Super …

Hey, I’m at the tail end of the baby boom and you’ve been hearing all about how we refuse to grow old gracefully or cast aside our youthful ways, outlook, thought patterns. Generally this holds true for me: I’m as deeply entrenched in popular culture as ever, and I can …