Comments on: Required re-reading http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/ Same old blog, brand new place Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:34:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Seitz http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-94470 Bill Seitz Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/#comment-94470 We still haven't learned the hopelessness/pointlessness of the WarOnDrugs or the WarOnTerror. I think it will be a long time before the WarOnPiracy gets given up on. We still haven’t learned the hopelessness/pointlessness of the WarOnDrugs or the WarOnTerror. I think it will be a long time before the WarOnPiracy gets given up on.

]]> By: TheWayoftheWeb » More fuel for the record company bonfire… http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-93803 TheWayoftheWeb » More fuel for the record company bonfire… Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:46:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/#comment-93803 [...] Following on from my last post, I’ve just been reading the far more eloquent Lawrence Lessig’s ‘In Defence of Piracy‘, published on the Wall Street Journal. (Hat tip to Doc Searls). [...] [...] Following on from my last post, I’ve just been reading the far more eloquent Lawrence Lessig’s ‘In Defence of Piracy‘, published on the Wall Street Journal. (Hat tip to Doc Searls). [...]

]]> By: alan herrell - the head lemur http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-93742 alan herrell - the head lemur Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:39:14 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/#comment-93742 Probably the most interesting bit is at the end where he mentions bringing copyright back to 14 years. Copyright has always been a two-fer. A Limited Monopoly in exchange for increasing the creative and intellectual heritage (Public Domain) of the society that allows artists to flourish. 14 years is long enough. See if you can find any book, song, or movie that has been any top ten list for the last 12 months, let alone being in Copyright Purgatory for 75 or 95 years. Copyright is not a lifetime welfare program for the ''Entertainment Industry'', which is neither entertaining nor an industry. The Entertainment Industries greatest mistake was calling copying "Piracy". There is no teenager on the planet who doesn't want to be a pirate. Nor was it ever designed to keep things behind walls, and provide full employment for lawyers. We now have the tools, and the connections necessary to break the cycle of publication blackmail, but with very few exceptions, we do not have the will. Probably the most interesting bit is at the end where he mentions bringing copyright back to 14 years.

Copyright has always been a two-fer. A Limited Monopoly in exchange for increasing the creative and intellectual heritage (Public Domain) of the society that allows artists to flourish. 14 years is long enough. See if you can find any book, song, or movie that has been any top ten list for the last 12 months, let alone being in Copyright Purgatory for 75 or 95 years.

Copyright is not a lifetime welfare program for the ”Entertainment Industry”, which is neither entertaining nor an industry. The Entertainment Industries greatest mistake was calling copying “Piracy”. There is no teenager on the planet who doesn’t want to be a pirate. Nor was it ever designed to keep things behind walls, and provide full employment for lawyers.

We now have the tools, and the connections necessary to break the cycle of publication blackmail, but with very few exceptions, we do not have the will.

]]> By: vanderleun http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-93726 vanderleun Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:05:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/12/required-re-reading/#comment-93726 "All helpful reform fodder for the new Congress and Administration." Well, pack a lunch because you're going to need a snack while you wait. No matter what sort of congress or administration we get, this is going to be far, far down on the To-Do list. It might even make the To-Don't list. “All helpful reform fodder for the new Congress and Administration.”

Well, pack a lunch because you’re going to need a snack while you wait. No matter what sort of congress or administration we get, this is going to be far, far down on the To-Do list. It might even make the To-Don’t list.

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