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 Morosoph rated 52 months ago - Great articles, take the one on "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig:Once again Lessig calls to our attention the increasing disconnect between law and digital culture. We see studio moguls, recording executives and Beltway insiders all seeking to impose what Lessig calls an "extremist&q...
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- mlekas rated 9 months ago
- Great content, well written and thoughtful. too bad there have been no updates since 2006.
- jeannebreault rated 19 months ago
- Not fresh enough for me...this site hasn't been updated since 11/06.
- kaolelo rated 33 months ago
- i don't know about the best, but it's interesting
- dragonsmoked rated 43 months ago
- Another website thinking they know anything about the future. Wrong. www.singinst.org if you want to know anything at all, go there.
- Morosoph rated 52 months ago
- Great articles, take the one on "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig:Once again Lessig calls to our attention the increasing disconnect between law and digital culture. We see studio moguls, recording executives and Beltway insiders all seeking to impose what Lessig calls an "extremist" agenda by divorcing copyright law from its moorings in the Constitution as a balanced copyright bargain struck between creators and the public. Instead, we're now seeing a new brand of intellectual property, where digital "property" rights are valued above all else and "piracy" is portrayed as the common enemy.Or from the article "Will Digital Radio Be Napsterized?":Cheryl Leanza, deputy director of Media Access Project, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., says the recording industry is afraid of the Napsterization of digital radio."In the analog world, you could tape songs off the radio, give the recording to your friends, and pretty much do anything you want with it," she says. "In the newer world, the technology sets the rules and determines how long you can save a recording, how you can use it, and whether you can share it with a friend."The problem is, the technology is so ham-handed that it gives all controls to the content creator and no discretion to listeners, users or subsequent creators. Fair use goes out the window, and we lose the purpose of copyright, which is to spread ideas and promote discourse. If the technology and the new rules eliminate these kinds of legitimate uses, then you will limit a fair amount of the creativity that we would otherwise get as a society."
- digitalartdude rated 52 months ago
- Mindjack - the beat of digital culture
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