About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: copyright
Play the hand you’re dealt
Today I had the opportunity to present about Copyright the Card Game through the Media Education Lab’s Leading from the Library series. I hadn’t talked about it in a few years, and with recent developments it seemed like a good … Continue reading
Gone to the dogs
I’ve been invited to do a presentation of Copyright the Card Game for another college. This came about as a result of a presentation Chris and Jane gave for Creative Commons’ 24 x Open Education Lightning Talks. Other people are … Continue reading
Happy copyright
I saw Christina’s copyright overview the other day, and was inspired. She was responding to this assignment, part of the Creative Commons Certificate course: Create a video, slide presentation, or infographic (or choose another medium) in which you describe the … Continue reading
Monkeying around with copyright
When I first heard about Chris Morrison and Jane Secker’s Copyright the Card Game, I thought it was an awesome idea, and wondered how I might be able to make use of it. I soon noticed a major problem in … Continue reading
Party for your right to fight
Jack Welch recently wrote a crazy-ass op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal arguing that corporations are people – they must be people, because otherwise they’d be buildings. I thought that his argument represented a false dichotomy. Corporations are legal entities, … Continue reading