…things like this are going to backfire.
Without a special license, owners of bars, clubs and restaurants could be sued for playing any one of 8 million recorded songs, even from their own CDs.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) says that equates to performing copyrighted music without permission, and the group is going [...]
Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
As Intellectual Property Law Develops…
Posted in Common Sense, Culture on August 1, 2007 | 11 Comments »
A Reader Chimes In
Posted in Catholic, Common Sense, Culture on July 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
On Harry Potter:
We have had reservations with these series because we know the dangers and evils behind witchcraft. It isn’t funny. It isn’t cute.
It surely isn’t funny when 8 year olds “pretend” to be witches especially, when you say on the side, “But you do know that witchcraft is a serious sin” (these are Catholic [...]
Rhymes With “Dairy Otter”
Posted in Catholic Restorationists, Culture on July 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Nah, you won’t get any milk from a cute aquatic mammal, but I just posted a lil’ somethin-somethin’ at CR about the boy from Hogwart’s.
It’s a direct response to something written by Mark Shea.
As an aside, while it’s true that I find myself disagreeing rather strongly with Mr. Shea, he has earned a lot of points with [...]
Crunchy Conservatism
Posted in Common Sense, Culture, Distributism, Restoration, The Rural Solution on June 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Speaking of Rod Dreher, I picked up his Crunchy Cons from the library yesterday. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while. Rod and I exchanged a couple of e-mails about it before it was published, so despite the fact that it was prior to my sudden agrarian epiphany I had some interest going [...]
Pentecost Tradition at the Pantheon
Posted in Catholic, Culture, Tradition on May 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fr. Z has the scoop on a gorgeous Pentecost tradition at the Pantheon in Rome:
At the Church S. Maria ad Martyres, the Pantheon, at the end of Mass red rose petals are let fall in great abundance through the oculus, the dome’s “eye” which is completely open to the sky. Fireman from Rome’s fire [...]
The Essential Books
Posted in Catholic Restorationists, Culture, Education, Restoration on May 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In our internal discussion group, the idea arose to create a bibliography of essential texts, fiction and non fiction (and essays) that each of us thinks every Catholic Restorationist should read and own.
When the final list is compiled, I plan on putting it together in a special resource section of a new group site that [...]
The Importance of Being “Normal”
Posted in Culture, Restoration on May 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
While we’ve been discussing a lot of the external elements of the work of restoration here in the past week, something I don’t think we’ve touched on is the idea of “normalcy”, such as it is.
Over the weekend, my wife and I stopped at the store. Since the babies were sleeping, I stayed with them [...]
Linguistic Consistency
Posted in Common Sense, Culture on November 21, 2006 | 4 Comments »
It’s no secret to the people who know me that the term “African American” bugs the hell out of me. Race identifiers are at times convenient and contextual when describing someone or some group, and in a society as aware of racial boundaries as ours I suppose that it’s really unavoidable. We feel the need [...]
