Alex Daniels’s Comments

• Feb 9th, 2011 @ 5:50am

  No comment, just this:

  on Smashing The Scales: Not Everything Needs 'Balance'
  http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/09/28/balance/
• Feb 5th, 2011 @ 7:01am

  Re: ReMixing is not creating

  on Star Wars Is A Remix
  I've seen remixers that "take other's expressions, rearrange and call them their own" and make stuff from a totally different and new sound-world, and I've seen musicians that start from scratch and make totally generic stuff with nothing new. And it also happens the other way round. This is not about what technique is used but about how much creativity is put into rearranging and transforming the building blocks of the past.
  
  Watch this and then come back to tell us it's not creative. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYa7furgQsA
• Jan 20th, 2011 @ 8:03am

  Re: Difficult...

  on Publishers Remove 2500 Journals From Free Access In Bangladesh; Put Them Back When People Notice
  Basically the scientists at universities do the research. The scientists at universities do the peer review. Then the publishers sell the books to the universities.
  
  Is it me or the publishers could be taken out of the equation completely? The money spent by universities on buying the journals could pay for the peer review, pay for the online hosting of all the publications (to give free access to other universities) and to fund more research!
• Jan 10th, 2011 @ 8:32am

  (untitled comment)

  on How Trademark Law Is Supposed To Work: Groupon Sues Australian Clone That Tried To Squat Groupon Name
  The problem is when all IP is lumped together in one senseless mega-category. The folks who defend the anti-competitive and censorship-happy effects of patent and copyright always take advantage of this misconception.
  
  Trademark, geographical indication signs and proper authorship attribution protect customers from being victims of a fraud and companies and artists from someone else abusing their hard-earned reputation.