To my surprise and delight, the good folks at Duke Law have produced this comic book to explain the law of fair use and how expanding copyrights is producing lots of “collateral damage” in the free speech department. Back when I was in law school I had an idea for an entire series of comic books dramatizing the law school curriculum. Happily for the world, I can’t even draw stick figures as well as Jim Snider did in his Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy.
Stay tuned . . .
This thread is pretty long, but worth reading if you want the "history of Judaism while standing on one leg Twitter version."
Since people seem to be a little fuzzy sometimes about what Jews have been doing since, you know, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, a little basic (textual) history:
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Or some of both. Hey, we're complicated.
So. The Mishnah, often known as the Oral Torah, was either given by God at Sinai to Moses (along with the written Torah) or developed organically over time, depending on your theology. We DO know that the Mishnah was redacted around 150-200 CE by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi.
There’s no Judeo-Christian tradition. And that’s ok.
But it’s important for interfaith dialogue, coexistence, basic respect and historical accuracy to not conflate Judaism and Christianity. Two different faiths, traditions, theologies, histories. The origin & relationship to text is overlapping in some cases, yes, but...
And yes, then there was an Ashkenazi gloss—the Rema was from what’s now Poland. And Rashi was from France. And Rebbeinu Gershom lived in France and Germany. Etc. But to say that even half of the major moments that shaped Jewish thinking happened under Christian rule is way off.
Off the topic, you may want to see this column in Information Week. (Broke the URL in bits to get it to fit in this box….)
http://www.informationweek….
showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
52A1EWQDLMINKQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN
?articleID=183700708&subSection=Columns
Then you can smack him with the clue by four
Most extremely cool.
So much work to be done! The RightsMonster is an all-devouring beast. It denies us our own history, thereby condemming us to all kinds of bad stuff. I’m thinking of the Eyes on the Prize debacle, a rights obscenity if ever there was one.