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FOOD CHAIN BARBIE AND THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a decision released December 29th , the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco dismissed Mattel's appeal of the summary judgment of the Los Angeles federal district court regarding the creation and sale of photographs of naked Barbie dolls in provocative postures and being attacked by kitchen appliances by artist Tom Forsythe.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Indeed, it should be emphasised that these nascent methods of platform capital may not represent a divergent economic path so much as omens of a coming world in which the primary or secondary role of most work is to feed machine learning systems. Phil Jones. Grave Work.” Work Without the Worker: Labour In the Age of Platform Capitalism.

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