Refuting Mark Helprin’s Views on Copyright
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| Normally, this post would be something best left to someone like William
| Patry, whose credentials on copyright are above reproach. Lawrence Lessig has
| responded to Helprin in a contemporary and ingenious way, but Lessig’s main
| focus now has moved from intellectual property matters to what he has
| called “corruption” (and what Harvard Law School, his new employer calls “a
| major five-year project examining what happens when public institutions
| depend on money from sources that may be affected by the work of those
| institutions”).
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http://www.copycense.com/2009/05/refuting_mark_helprins_views_on_copyright.html
Pirate Bay organises Distributed Donation of Dollars attack
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| Now this is interesting: with the arrival of a demand for some $4.5 million
| in damages, one of the founders of Pirate Bay has come up with an innovate
| method of paying it. Gottfrid Svartholm has set up something called
| internet-avgift which encourages ordinary Internet users who are friendly to
| the Pirate Bay cause to donate towards the cost of that fine. In fact, the
| system enables them to send those donations directly to the law firm which
| represented the music companies during the trial.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4343.html
Related:
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
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