e-Magazine
Long-form essays on copyright, the commons, and the digital arts — written by contributors of CommonContent.
Most online casinos reach for the same visual vocabulary: midnight backgrounds, electric purples, gold coins mid-explosion, a promise of glamour pitched somewhere between a nightc…
By Anna Vetrova · June 11, 2026
Among the many pastimes that filled the long hours of court life, none carried quite the symbolic weight of a pair of dice. Playing cards, when they arrived in Europe in the late…
By Anna Vetrova · June 8, 2026
We talk about the internet as if it never forgets. Once something is online, the saying goes, it is online forever — a permanent record, impossible to fully erase. It is a comfort…
By Mark Levin · June 5, 2026
Modern casino sites are mastering a peculiar art: making players feel like they have stepped into a favourite film without ever touching the film itself. The toolkit is generative…
By Mark Levin · June 5, 2026
The most widely viewed short film produced within the One Pen One Page program in 2025 ran just four minutes and twenty-one seconds. It was filmed entirely on a smartphone, edited…
By Mark Levin · June 3, 2026
Digital art has always had a complicated relationship with ownership. A painting exists once, in a specific physical location, and its ownership is unambiguous. A digital image ex…
By Mark Levin · May 30, 2026
On a winter evening in 1638, in a wing of the Palazzo Dandolo near the church of San Moisè in Venice, a set of doors was opened that would, in a quiet and almost bureaucratic way,…
By Mark Levin · May 28, 2026
Most people who apply a Creative Commons licence to their work choose it the same way they choose a software end-user agreement — by scrolling to the bottom and clicking accept. T…
By Mark Levin · May 28, 2026
The question sounds abstract until you have faced it personally. A musician who released their recordings under a Creative Commons Attribution licence ten years ago — inviting any…
By Anna Vetrova · May 28, 2026
The young artists who walk into our digital art workshop at One Pen One Page, on average, think of themselves as artists. They think of themselves as people who draw on their iPad…
By Mark Levin · May 16, 2026
There is a moment that happens consistently in our audio workshops at One Pen One Page and it is the moment that converts most sceptical participants into believers in the form. A…
By Anna Vetrova · May 15, 2026
It is a strange moment for writing. The most-read pieces on the internet in 2026 are short. The most-shared are visual. The fastest-growing format among teenagers is a vertical vi…
By Anna Vetrova · May 14, 2026
In March 2021, an artist who called himself Beeple sold a JPEG at Christie's for $69 million. The buyer didn't get a painting, a print, or even an exclusive copy. He got a token o…
By Admin · April 30, 2026
A historic sale, a heated debate In late February 2025, Christie's opened the doors on "Augmented Intelligence" — the first major auction at a top-tier house dedicated entirely to…
By gabriel rodriguez · April 30, 2026