If there was ever a bill crying out for a line edit, this is it. Its heart appears to be in the right place. Much of its remainder, however, sadly, seems to be misplaced at the moment.

My first impressions of the 2022 #DataProtectionBill —
https://copyright.lawmatters.in/2022/11/data-protection-and-bill-of-unintended.html

#law #India

Glad to see this piece about #StreetArt & #copyright #law, & pleasantly surprised to see a reference to my own work on the subject in it.

Hopefully, the more we talk about the issue, the more likely it'll be that artists & their work will be better protected…

http://bwlegalworld.businessworld.in/article/Intellectual-Property-And-Graffiti-Art-What-Needs-To-Be-Done/09-11-2022-453398/

It's not often that there is a judgment of particular interest to philatelists so this one caught my eye: the Delhi High Court has held that stamps and, seemingly, other philatelic items over 100 years old are “antiquities” within the meaning of the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972.

#art #philately

2022/DHC/004642, 4 Nov 2022 in W P (C) 3072/2008 Ajay Kumar Mittal v UOI

There's so much that the modern world has to learn from indigenous peoples...

#Australia fires: Hunter Valley property owners say cultural burning saved their property.

Lit with matches, #indigenous cultural burning methods are cooler & slower-moving than hazard-reduction burning, spare tree canopies, and enable animals to escape the flames.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/it-s-miraculous-owners-say-cultural-burning-saved-their-property-20200103-p53okc.html #nature

"We’ve been coerced into identifying more with the dominant culture than with our own bodies, more with capitalism than with the earth on which the economy rests, more with civilization than with the battered and bleeding and heartbroken beings who are our brothers and sisters on this planet. .... People defend what is valuable to them, and our culture values nothing more than itself."

https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-civilization/ #nature #civilisation #environment #climatecrisis

"The psychological power of #gardening derives from the garden’s reach beyond the here and now. My contention is that different and complex forms of time are continuously interacting through the garden and the gardener. Past, present and future collide in a flowerbed, enticing the gardener to lose themselves in the pleasure of ‘flow’. Let someone else worry about lunch."

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-pottering-about-in-the-garden-creates-a-time-warp #nature

"I was neither interested in marking something for myself or empire, nor getting into taxonomic debates about how to name a #bird or separating different species.

As I whispered a bird’s name after it, it became a small thing known in a world filled with many unknowns; and with each bird I was calling myself home."

On domestic abuse and birdwatching: https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/birds-of-my-own-robyn-yzelman #nature