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Nina Paley
Personal blog · blog.ninapaley.comculturepolitics
Nina Paley's personal blog at blog.ninapaley.com covers culture and politics. Since 2009, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “This-land-is-mine”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nina Paley's blog for her writing on copyright and on culture as anti-rivalrous, plus posts on the Netflix DRM dispute over Sita Sings the Blues and on gender and colonialism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-14
- This-land-is-mine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-08
- Creative Commons’ Branding Confusion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-20
- The Cult of Originality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-20
What Hacker News says?
This brings to mind Nina Paley's "Copyright is Brain Damage": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc Paley is in the process of creating an epic animated story, using music appropriated with out rights, as a protest piece against copyright. She addresses the question somewhat at her blog: http://blog.ninapaley.com/?s=copyright+is+brain+damage&submi... If you're looking for a transcript, I'm not aware of one, thou…
Comment linking /?s=copyright+is+brain+damage&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search
on “Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts”Submitted Nina Paley passes on Netflix DRM and thousands of dollars as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThanks, but it's not my poem! You can find it here: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/15/minute-meme-1-copying-...
Comment linking /2009/12/15/minute-meme-1-copying-is-not-theft/
on “The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement”Submitted Creative Commons’ Branding Confusion as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe clearest call for copyright civil disobedience: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/
Comment linking /2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/
on “Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law”Submitted Why are Freedoms guaranteed for Free Software not guaranteed for Free Culture? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTo help categorize and understand: I'd characterize your argument as the "Stallman" argument, where the simplicity of copying justifies the moral argument against copyright. There is a alternate vein which doesn't have to do with value or scarcity, but which has to do with rivalrousness (that is a very subtle distinction): http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalro... You may find it interesting.
Comment linking /2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/
on “Open access: All human knowledge is there, so why can’t everybody access it?”Submitted Nina Paley on Creative Commons' Non-Commercial Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalro... is a nice text about the rival/non-rival nature of things.
Comment linking /2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/
on “Stallman’s Law”Submitted Introducing Hundred Dollar Drawings! as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee "Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide" by Nina Paley: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/
Comment linking /2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/
on “Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous”Submitted My Car-Free Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy views on the matter are complicated and probably a bit conflicted. But for a cute presentation of a particular alternate viewpoint: http://blog.ninapaley.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/NA_Inve...
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on “Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry”Submitted This-land-is-mine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionstallman's tangible/intangible idea, while a nice first order attempt, might not be the correct lens with which to look at things. I like Nina Paley's "rivalrous/anti-rivalrous" analysis better. http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalro...
Comment linking /2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalrous/
on “Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control”Submitted The Cult of Originality as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains." --Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri blind Arabian philosopher, poet - circa 11th century what has any of this to do with "Hacker News"?[shrug] ah well, if anyone wants to understand anything about middle east history they ought to start with Nina Paley: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-min…
Comment linking /2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/
on “The tragedy of the Arabs”Submitted “Sita Sings The Blues” Flash Source Files now online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat Nina actually posted: https://mimiandeunice.com/2018/11/07/the-jenndra-identitty-c... https://blog.ninapaley.com/2018/02/07/gender_colonialism/
Comment linking /2018/02/07/gender_colonialism/
on “Nina Paley's MysticSymbolic”This contract echoes the story of Nina Palin's attempt to get her Free (creative-commons share-alike) movie "Sita Sings the Blues" on netflix streaming without DRM. Netflix refused. They even refused to let her put a title-card at the start of the movie telling viewers that the movie was free to download from other sources. http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/04/23/turning-down-netflix/ Three years later she went full CC…
Comment linking /2013/01/18/ahimsa-sita-sings-the-blues-now-cc-0-public-domain/
on “A Leaked Contract Reveals that Amazon Insists on DRM”Thanks, pretty sweet. Edit: probably a niche issue for most, but this is worth a read... http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/09/27/dear-internet-we-need-b...
Comment linking /2011/09/27/dear-internet-we-need-better-image-archives/
on “Tate Galleries releases its collection metadata as json on Github”The original article is a great read: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality...
Comment linking /2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality/
on “The Myth of Originality”You’re assuming that “women” asked for the full package of changes we ended up with. I’d argue that their focus was more on being able to vote and being able to have bank accounts, and the sexual revolution was driven more by liberal men than by a broad coalition of women: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/08/23/andrea-dworkin-on-the-... (“Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revo…
Comment linking /2019/08/23/andrea-dworkin-on-the-sexual-revolution/
on “'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps”
