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Lessig and Leveraging FLOSS For Ethical Copyright
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| My main concern with his talk, and, indeed, with the whole of the conference,
| was that there was a presumption that academic criticism of copyright was
| capable of effecting change in the copyright law. Having witnessed first
| hand the irrelevance of logical or economic arguments in the face of the
| immense power that copyright cartels have, this presumption is one in which I
| have little faith. The problem is not one of law, but one of power – power
| that is out of control. Prof. Lessig does seem to be aware of this, given
| his stated intention to work in the future on institutional corruption.
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/lessig-and-leveraging-floss-for-ethical-copyright/
Time To Start Thinking About Infinite Bandwidth
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| So, all these arguments over "net neutrality" and "metered billing" are
| missing the point. Bandwidth is going to increase. Those who attempt to cap
| it or limit it are only going to make their own pipes significantly less
| valuable. However, those who recognize how empowering more bandwidth can be,
| and how approaching "infinite bandwidth" opens up the possibility for new
| services and apps that we can't even fathom today, will start to realize that
| providing ever more bandwidth increases value and clamping down on bandwidth
| kills value.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090619/1804575297.shtml
Recent:
Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society
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| Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a new
| Harvard Business School working paper called File Sharing and Copyright that
| raises some important points about file sharing, copyright, and the net
| benefits to society.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/
Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone
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| Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have written some
| previous papers on this subject, but they've just come out with a new working
| paper on how weaker copyright protection benefits society (pdf file). Michael
| Geist has an excellent overview and summary of the paper. To understand the
| key points made by the paper, you need to understand the purpose of
| copyright -- something that many people are confused about. It's always been
| about creating incentives to create new works.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090617/1138185267.shtml
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