At the Internet Video Policy Symposium, professor Gerry Faulhaber of University of Pennsylvania declared copyright a dead issue, according to Paul Sweeting of ContentAgenda. The article rambles on to discuss bandwidth traffic, but the most interesting snippet was this quote from Professor Fauhaber:
“Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in [...]
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Copyright is dead, says professor Faulhaber
Posted in Copyright, Eh?, Future on Monday, June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What Do You Know About Copyright?”
Posted in Copyright, Links on Friday, January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘brary web diva conducted a survey on librarians’ views about their knowledge on copyright. Interesting results. I feel rather silly, but it reallt didn’t occur to me before that in addition to the public copiers, the public scanners and computers with disc drives or USB ports should carry a copyright notice posted near them. (D’oh!) [...]
Lawrence Lessig on creative freedom and copyright
Posted in Copyright, Digital rights, Future on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A TED video of Lessig’s speech (ca. 20 min) found via the Information Research blog. As the TED site puts it,
The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]
