Give me Copyleft any day!


	Give me Copyleft any day!

arcadian

8-11-2007 5:52 AM

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copyright, internet, music, artists, license

arcadian says:

Yes, we're all lawbreakers in New Zealand. Our Government makes us do it

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56921623-50ba-4363-b323-046803ce2113/C503BF2B-5089-43AB-AB8D-518692DA7BDC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/" href="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/" style="font-size: 11px;">it.gen.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/"><H3 class="storytitle"><A title="The scandal of digital copyright expansion" rel="bookmark" href="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/">The scandal of digital copyright expansion</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/"><P>Today I talked on Radio New Zealand National about digital copyright, and how Parliament could have decided to make iPods legal but now apparently isn’t going to.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/"><P>The essential point here is that copyright is a form of monopoly granted by government to boost innovation, almost a property right, and that copyright holders will naturally lobby government to have their interests expanded so the worth of their property right increases. That doesn’t make it right. It’s all the rest of us who pay the price, and the continual expansion of copyright risks our whole culture and technology since everything original we do relies on work done by others.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/"><P>Below the fold are my speaking notes for the radio, which I nearly stuck to, with as always some interesting <A href="http://it.gen.nz/2007/08/02/the-scandal-of-digital-copyright-expansion/#links">links</A> at the bottom.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C503BF2B-5089-43AB-AB8D-518692DA7BDC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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