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 …