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Earlier today at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto conference, a speaker said “[Canadians] as a culture like to watch what people are doing, and we’re right next door to the biggest zoo in the world.”
Moments later, as if in response to this satement, someone instant-messaged me a link to a picture of this button, which was being sold at this past weekend’s Texas State Republican Convention:
Also seen at the convention was merch with these slogans:
- Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Deportation
- I will hold my nose when I vote for McCain
Charming. It’s almost as if they’re trying to prove the adage “Liberals by and large are fools, and conservatives by and large are villains.”
On the bright side, Republicans Michael Williams and Mike Huckabee were also there praising the advance of Barack Obama and what it means towards a colorblind society. So maybe there’s still hope.
Once again, I’m at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto conference, covering the presentations. I’m still working my way through crunching yesterday’s presentations, but I though I’d give you folks a taste with this graphic, which is based on a key point from Fredrick Marckini’s keynote presentation from yesterday morning:
I’ll have more from the conference soon, and I’ll post it both here and in Global Nerdy.
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Darth Vader’s Hangover
Even Sith lords have rough nights:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
My thanks to the folks at Yahoo! for loaning me part of their “Code Monkey” costume.
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The “Right” in “Copyright”
Welcome to Ignatz & Copyright, the first in a series of articles in which I, along with you the readers, will explore the debate over copyright, Canada’s Bill C-61, the American DMCA and related matters. If you want to find the inspiration behind this series, read the entry title Ignatz Zayats and the Copyright Debate, as well as the comments.
I thought I’d start by providing a quick definition of “copyright”, just to make sure that we’re all talking about the same thing. Copyright is a compound word, and in this entry, I’m going to look at the “right” in “copyright”.
First, the “Right”…
The “right” in “copyright” refers to the set of exclusive legal rights granted to creators over their works for a limited period of time. These rights boil down to:
- The right to copy the work
- The right to recognition for creating the work
- The right to distribute (or say who can distribute) copies of the work to the public by selling, renting or lending it
- The right to perform, display or transmit (or say who can perform, display or transmit) the work in public
- The right to prepare derivative works (or say who can prepare derivative works) based upon the work
Copyright’s intent, to borrow the words of the “Copyright Clause” in the U.S. Constitution, is to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. By creating a legal mechanism for creators to be compensated, creators can make a living, and are given an incentive to continue creating works.
As I mentioned earlier, copyright is granted for a limited period of time. Once this period of time passes, the work enters the public domain, at which point it can be freely used and adapted by anyone.
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[This article was also posted on Global Nerdy.]
Fredrick Marckini.
I’m sitting in the press room of the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto conference as I write this. I’m here on a press pass arranged for me by Byron Gordon of SEO-PR and in exchange, I’ll be publishing blog entries from the conference over the next couple of days.
Fredrick Marckini’s Opening Keynote
The opening keynote by Fredrick Marckini, Chief Global Search Officer of Isobar, was quite good. For a guy like me — I’ve been more concerned about application development and technical evangelism than search engine marketing — it was a pretty good introduction to the search engine marketing and trends to watch for. Not only did Marckini present a lot of useful information (especially to an SEM newbie like me), but he presented with style and humor and kept the audience engaged — not an easy thing first thing in the morning.
I took copious notes and once I’ve formatted them, I’ll post them here.
The Best Thing in the Goodie Bag
It’s not a tech conference unless there’s a goodie bag, and this one is no exception. I always find uses for them, and the ones for this conference are pretty decent:
The goodie bag at SES Toronto.
They’re trying to make this conference a little more green, so they’ve kept the paper contents of the goodie bag quite lean, limited to the conference agenda magazine, a few sheets of administrivial paper and the best thing, the book Meatball Sundae, written by my favourite marketing guru, Seth Godin:
The best thing in the goodie bag: Meatball Sundae, by Seth Godin.
I’m looking forward to reading it.