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This is the ReadWriteWeb Daily Recap for 02/01/2012


The Anti-Piracy Discussion We Haven't Had Yet

In 1959 (as I recall), my mother, an acclaimed professional artist, had
entered a handful of her oil paintings into an annual art show. Someone
attending the show noted that one particular work, the face of a peasant
boy, strongly resembled a photograph that had appeared in Life magazine.
Well, there was no coincidence about it: Mom had studied precisely that
face, and her work was based on that photograph. (The card tacked to the
wall actually said so, if anyone had bothered to read it.)

So it was that the local newspaper "exposed" my mother as a fraud, a
counterfeiter. It ran a story with the painting next to the Life magazine
photograph itself. Thus began a lifelong dialog that became one of the
threads of my life: a case study in fair use that fueled endless debates in
the Socratic method between Mom and her art students for the next four
decades. It began with the delicious iron

Tags: process, fraud, hardcore, design, phone, ipod.