Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Theme-Dialogue Integration - Part 3 - Romantic Emotional Intelligence

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Theme-Dialogue Integration Part 3 Romantic Emotional Intelligence Previous Parts in Theme-Dialogue Integration What's Eating Hi...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Law And Unintended Consequences

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This weekend is the twentieth anniversary  (china!) of the signing of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).  As for me, I mentally awa...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Cosmic Times and Distances

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This video compresses the total history of the universe and Earth into a single monologue of less than twenty minutes: History of the Ent...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Theme-Character Integration Part 15 - Building A Bully Character From Theme

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Theme-Character Integration Part 15 Building A Bully Character From Theme Previous Parts of the Theme-Character Integration Series ar...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Breakdown of Copyright (or not)

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Legal bloggers Chantal Bertosa , Victoria E. Carrington , and Ashley Doumouchel writing for the law firm Aventum IP Law LLP share their d...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

AI Rights

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Here's an article on the PBS website exploring the issue of what might happen if artificial intelligences were granted the status of leg...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Reviews 40 - John Dixon The Point

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Reviews 40 The Point by John Dixon Reviews have not yet been indexed.  I discuss many novels within the context of various writin...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Good News: Creators Have No Duty To Read All Their Contemporaries' Works

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The subject line is an extrapolation. It would indeed be an unreasonable world for copyright owners if a creator whose work was plagiarize...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

In Defense of Unsuspicious Immersion

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The May 2018 issue of PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association) contains an article by Faye Halpern titled "Beyond Contempt...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Putting Violence In Its Place Part 2 - The Three Second Rule

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Putting Violence In Its Place Part 2 The Three Second Rule The First Part of this series was written as a stand-alone post, not the k...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

Need To Know/ Nice To Know

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Authors, do you know how long your copyrights on your works last? For your lifetime, plus 70 years.  This has been the case for authors in t...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

The Wonders of Jellyfish

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If possible, pick up a copy of the October NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and contemplate the dazzling photos in the article on jellyfish. Typical jell...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Worldbuilding For Science Fiction Romance Part 2 - Imagine An Impossible World

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Worldbuilding For Science Fiction Romance Part 2 Imagine An Impossible World  Part 1: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/01...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Data At Risk

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Even the intellectual property law blogs are talking about cyber security!  Authors ought to be especially careful, because authors tend to ...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Biology Marches On

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I'm currently reading, little by little, a book by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (best known for THE SELFISH GENE), THE ANCESTO...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Theme-Character Integration Part 14 The Family Man

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Theme-Character Integration Part 14 The Family Man Previous entries in Theme-Character Integration are indexed here: http://aliendj...