Mark Barrett commented on my last post, the aim of which was to attempt to begin to examine the underpinnings of copyright. The substance of his comment was the idea that there was no way to protect against corporations (or rich companies/people) from exploiting the copyrights of an individual without copyright law. I thought about this for awhile, trying to find a counter argument.
When I read Mark’s comment, his arguments made sense to me, and I realized that some of our differences could be resolved (or, at the very …

When Mark Barrett of Ditchwalk recently mentioned that he’d been engaged in a conversation that declared copyright antiquated, he linked to my post about piracy. I was flattered, because I respect Mark’s posts on his site and his comments here, but a little flustered, because he saw what I was trying to do with my arguments about copyright before I did. And I wrote them. My post about piracy IS trying to hold as a central thesis that copyright is an outdated notion. Thanks, Mark, for pointing that out to …

While doing some random surfing this afternoon (I think I started on Slashdot with a story from The Endeavour, and from there, Clay Shirky – though it’s hard to retrace steps when moving around like that, surfing willy-nilly), I found this article.
It’s about newspapers transitioning into the digital age, but it fits the discussion we’ve been having from the last post. It’s definitely worth a read. What do you think?