Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
This Thursday the students at Infomedia are arranging a debate about whether the new intellectual property laws in Norway will make us criminals. I’d go, but we’ve got a department seminar at Voss.
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I’m in Australia! Hooray! My mum and dad and sister and I moved from Perth to Bergen when I was a kid, and ever since I’ve loved two homes: Australia and Norway. Walking off the plane last night and breathing in the scent of eucalyptus in the warm night air […]
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This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the copy-editor wasn’t human, it was an AI. We have undertaken a light text edit using the tool Paperpal Preflight; […]
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Will we become criminals?
Twenty years for using an IPod? Police going weapons-free because someone put his/her Britney collection on one cd-rom for playing on a mp3 enabled stereo?
This is just fiction and stupidity, but then – the new intellectual property laws in our fair…
Martin GL
Didn’t that piece of law lose support in Stortinget? I thought the lawmakers understood how profoundly unpopular it was.
Jill
Yes, they did, though I don’t think the battle’s over. Will be interesting to see how things develop.