Wow, what an exciting day! Mark at Ditchwalk posted a great entry furthering the discussion we’ve been having about piracy and copyright. With his support, I feel like the discussion is going somewhere. In this post I want to directly respond to what he wrote, so please read his post first. Once you’ve done that, let’s talk:
Both of Mark’s scenarios that don’t involve the taking of something from someone else, but still involve physical piracy (free newspaper and concert), stem from the same given: content creators have a right to …

In my last post I mentioned that I wanted to do one more post about copyright, detailing what a physical/digital hybrid copyright system might look like. I apologize for the delay in this follow-up post, but it’s been a pretty busy time at work in the last few weeks. I wasn’t allowed to mention why we were so busy until the deal went through, but now I’m able to talk about it. The company I work for was bought by a larger company, so transitioning to new systems, getting everything …

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 …