Written by Amy DeZellar in 2004. We remember Kurt Cobain today… on what would have been his 45th birthday.   Kurt, we hardly knew ya   Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally   Ten years after his death, the singer-songwriter who inadvertently created “grunge,” caused flannel to appear on NYC runways and became One Of The Most Important Rock Stars Of All Time is still attracting the kind of media attention that he hated.   Kurt Cobain had always been the quintessential anti-rock star. Unhappy with his fame once it [...]

When We Copy, We Justify It; When Others Copy, We Vilify Them   You may recall that at.tv featured the first three of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix project highlighting the problems and history of intellectual property and how copying and derivative works are a core element of culture and invention.   The fourth and final installment in the series has just been released, and it’s a great summary look at the general problems with intellectual property law today.       Never mind the economy, stupid: this election is all about sex   [...]