How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition? What rights do artists and educators have to draw inspiration from or comment on existing works in existing media?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Summary Perspectives”
Wrapping up Media in Transition 6, with Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia; Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries; John Durham Peters, University of Iowa; Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “The Future of Publishing”
Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the business.
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Institutional Perspectives on Storage”
At this moment of transition in the archive, we face many choices, from redundancy and maintaining double systems to all-out conversion to digital formats. What strategies make sense as you look forward?
Video: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
Scholars of “dead tree technologies” feel increasingly uneasy in a culture overwhelmingly consumed with innovation.
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
How has oral composition survived so many changes? Are there parallels between the ancient oral traditions and the emerging internet culture?
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
