He was also one of the co-creators of ROFLcon, a biennial convention of internet memes that took place in 2008, 2010 and 2012, and he tells us how he saw a sea change in internet culture at that time as commercialisation began to manifest in creative online culture.
Damian Barr, author of the acclaimed memoir Maggie and Me, will not be there, but is unsurprised at the commercialisation of the former PM.
In Germany, France and Switzerland (and probably soon in the Netherlands), the infamous PVP breeder's exemption has found its echo in patent legislation, where breeding programmes could be initialised, even when the material contained patented traits, the consent of the patent holder needing to be sought at the commercialisation stage.
The recent suicide of Mike Kelley, perhaps the most influential US artist of the last 25 years, has been interpreted almost as a protest at over-commercialisation.
"Myspace went for aggressive commercialisation at a very early stage.
The vice-principal of research and commercialisation at Aberdeen, Dominic Houlihan, said the agreement "cemented the relationship between the two institutions and will lead to greater joint working".
" Though her management style may have evolved, Davies is still critical of her contemporaries in housing associations who refuse to accept change and commercialisation at every turn.
If not technically of the first rank, Tabei became in later years a powerful advocate for the mountain environment and looked on in horror at the rapid commercialisation of Everest.
Fans mutter about crass commercialisation at any suggestion of renaming Old Trafford perhaps forgetting that the club's commercial interests reaped revenues of £47.8m last year, some 28% of the total.United's new American owner might also try to do away with a joint TV deal brokered by the Premiership sides.
