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Judge Mocks Public Interest Concerns About Kicking People Off Internet, Tells Cox It’s Not Protected By The DMCA – If I remember correctly, Rightscorp is considered one of those copyright trolling outfits that corporations use to notice alleged DMCA infringers. Except that Rightscorp basically sends a bunch of takedown notices to ... more >
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Why Can’t Romance Novels Get Any Love? – A good introductory piece in Smithsonian on the slow infiltration of genre Romance into the academy. Featuring a number of the Teach Me Tonight folks, the article surveys some of the work currently being done to promote the genre as both study-able ... more >
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The sixth ‘Game of Thrones’ book won’t be released in 2015 – Clearly the television adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series has amped up expectation and anticipation for the next book, such that Martin’s publisher indicates that the next book in the series will NOT appear in ... more >
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Yet More on Female Characters in Fantasy – Rhiannon Thomas responds to Robin Hobb’s Facebook post on female characters in fantasy. Hobbs argues, among other things, that “I do not feel that gender defines a person any more than height does. Or shoe size. It’s one facet of a character. ... more >