Statistical Analysis of U of Chicago Graffiti

quaith writes "Quinn Dombrowski, a member of the University of Chicago's central IT staff, has been recording the graffiti left in the Joseph Regenstein Library Since September 2007. To date she has photographed and transcribed over 620 pieces of graffiti; over 410 of them are datable to within a week of their creation. She has now published in Inkling Magazine a statistical analysis of the entire graffiti collection covering such subjects as love, hate, despair, sex, anatomy, and temporal fluctuations of each of these. After November, both love and despair graffiti drop off significantly until spring, while sex graffiti reaches its one and only peak in December before declining for the rest of the school year. The story includes links to all of the original graffiti photos, which the researcher has made freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license."

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Re:Its not a "false need"

[ultranova]

People control information for a number of reasons but copyright is there so the people who created the work - you know , the ones who spent months or years creating a piece of music or a book (surprise! They don't just magic themselves into existence!) - can earn some money from their efforts before ungrateful and clueless morons like you think you're entitled to it for free just because you can copy it easily.

Isn't insisting that other people behave in a certain way just so you can make money kinda implying a sense of entitlement on your part? And no, hard work doesn't entitle you to get money, even if you persist for years; and it most certainly doesn't entitle you to enforce rules designed to make you money on others.

Maybe you should consider getting a day job, and composing/writing on your free time? Then you wouldn't have to try to control other people to make profit, and the rest of us wouldn't have to subsidy you indulging your creative impulses through government monopoly.

Grow up!

Oh the irony.