With Operation Fortitude South in mind, should we consider the possibility that SHAEF’s system-within-a-system for retrieval of civilian press coverage of the D-Day invasion did not in fact fail, but instead operated exactly as it was intended to do? […]
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Kershaw in this 1984 book reproduces the first nine of Capa’s ten Omaha Beach 35mm images, commenting on each one in turn. Unfortunately, those annotations do not reflect well on Kershaw’s knowledge of photography or military equipment, nor on his ability to pay close attention to the evidentiary data encoded in photographs. […] |
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Spring Fever: Ends and Odds 2018
Copyright law covers the actions and creations of humans, and only humans. Claim otherwise and all those cat videos become performance art, whose performers — like Maru the box lover, or Henri, the existential French cat — deserve not just special treatment for their cooperation but the lion’s share of the royalties they earn for product endorsements and such. […]