Sunday links stripped-down

3rd August 2014

An offering including several compelling pieces about copyright (honest!). Apologies as usual to all those from whom I’ve taken tips without credit.

• What’s left to discover today? Plenty: David Bordwell as richly interesting as ever.

• L.A Plays Itself is finally coming to home video. Here’s how: Glenn Whipp for the Los Angeles Times on ‘fair use’, film clips and Thom Andersen’s 2003 video essay about the city in cinema.

• At least one real, athentic moment of humanity with Cameron Diaz: Alex Pappademas meets her for Grantland.

• Concrete nostalgia, Southmere Estate, Thamesmead: Andrea Klettner goes on a day trip for lovelondoncouncilhousing.com.

• Bullying and hypocrisy – Andy Coulson’s reign at the News of the World: more from Nick Davies’ book Hack Attack.

• Crime fiction: extraordinary journalism from Nicholas Schmidle for The New Yorker.

• Gloomy pageant: Jeremy Harding on David Marquand’s new book about Britain, for London Review of Books.

• How did Bob Dylan get so weird?: a long read from Bill Wyman for Vulture.

• Ira Glass can’t relate to Shakespeare? Good: Holger Syme at disposito.

• The Nether: not exactly a review (he hasn’t seen the show) but reflections on theatre and the virtual from Andrew Haydon at Postcards from the Gods.

• The death of privacy: Alex Preston for the Observer.

• Ways of knowing: Robert Pippin on the humanities in American universities.

• The ephemeral ebook library: fascinating piece from Sharon Farb and Sean Johnson Andrews about the ‘first sale doctrine’ and ebooks.

• The networked catalog: Matt Miller for the New York Public Library.

• Lawsuit filed to prove Happy Birthday is in the public domain; demands Warner pay back millions of license fees: … and another compelling piece about copyright, from Mike Masnick at TechDirt.

• Victory – format shifting and parody clear last hurdle: more on recent developments over copyright, from Javier Ruiz at the Open Rights Group.

• The American room: Paul Ford on another way of looking at the spaces of the States on YouTube.

• How the Commonwealth Games is helping define the future of broadcasting: Brendon Crowther at the BBC R&D blog…

• The network behind the R&D 2014 Commonwealth Games showcase: and this from the same blog but from Martin Nicholson.

Image: Summer Day (detail), Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, c. 1870 – c. 1903, with thanks to the Rijksmuseum’s wonderful policy of allowing images from its collection to be shared and used. As for the choice… why not?