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Current Topic: Intellectual Property

Will Smith's lawyer wants to allow p2p music swapping...
Topic: Intellectual Property 3:38 am EST, Dec 19, 2002

...by taxing all computer equipment... its not the best idea I've heard, but it is significant to hear this kind of thinking coming from someone like this.

Will Smith's lawyer wants to allow p2p music swapping...


``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge''
Topic: Intellectual Property 12:35 am EST, Dec 12, 2002

] "What's important --- increasingly important --- is the
] process by which you figure out what to look at. This is
] the beginning of the real and true economics of
] information. Not who owns the books, who prints the
] books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not
] holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts
] that tell you what to access --- what to pay attention
] to. "

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge''


Proof that Valenti is wrong...
Topic: Intellectual Property 11:03 pm EST, Dec  8, 2002

] "If that assumption is correct, then only 2,480 out of
] 36,386 titles from 1927-1946 are available, or 6.8%.
] 93.2% are commercially dormant."

While this result is hardly surprising, its important, because the Copyright club has argued that copyright protection for old works is the best way to ensure their distribution. Obviously, its not working very well.

Proof that Valenti is wrong...


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