After years of toying with the idea, Kash finally convinced me to write up the bizarre copyright story that started seven years after Mark Twain’s death, when his ghost reportedly dictated a new novel, via Ouija board, to Emily Grant Hutchings. His publisher said: well, if Twain wrote it, we own it. So the more […]
about me
Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. more ยป
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recent posts
- New Rossword puzzle 7 March, 2021
- 1923 zine and website launch 23 March, 2019
- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal 3 March, 2019
- Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot 26 August, 2018
- Twitter should allow users to “hide” old tweets: my correct opinion 5 August, 2018
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- Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode
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- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal
