On Jun 19, 9:56 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> ____/ wispygalaxy on Friday 19 June 2009 19:38 : \____
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >> Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone
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> >> | Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have written some
> >> | previous papers on this subject, but they've just come out with a new
> >> | working paper on how weaker copyright protection benefits society (pdf
> >> | file). Michael Geist has an excellent overview and summary of the paper.
> >> | To understand the key points made by the paper, you need to understand
> >> | the purpose of copyright -- something that many people are confused
> >> | about. It's always been about creating incentives to create new works.
> >> `----
>
> >>http://techdirt.com/articles/20090617/1138185267.shtml
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> > Of course! People can build on the works of others (this is not stealing!)
>
> With ideas and art it can only be copying, never stealing.
I have a story for you. My cousin listens to reggae a lot, and he
says that the artists feel *honored* when you use their beat for your
own song. They don't even get angry! These musicians have it right-
they want their art to be spread.
> >> 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | First, the estimate of 750,000 jobs lost. (Is that supposed to be per
> >> | year? A cumulative total over some undefined span? Those who cite the
> >> | figure seldom say.) Customs is most often given as the source for this,
> >> | and indeed, you can find press releases from as recently as 2002 giving
> >> | that figure as a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol estimate. Eureka! But
> >> | when we contacted CBP to determine how they had arrived at that imposing
> >> | figure, we were informed that it was, in essence, a goof. The figure,
> >> | Customs assured us, came from somewhere else, and was mistakenly
> >> | described as the agency's own. This should come as no great surprise:
> >> | CBP is an enforcement agency, whereas calculating the total loss of jobs
> >> | from IP infringement would require some terrifyingly complex
> >> | counterfactual modeling by trained economists. Similar claims have
> >> | appeared in Customs releases dating back at least to 1993, but a CBP
> >> | spokesperson assured us that the agency has never been in the business
> >> | of developing such estimates in-house.
> >> `----
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> >> arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars
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> > It's so obvious- the industry is pushing around scary numbers to intimidate
> > people. It does not matter to them where the figures come from, as long as
> > they are big... :(
>
> They also compare file sharers to pirates from Somalia. Practically.
They are so desperate, lol.
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