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John Perry Barlow is an interesting guy. Wrote songs for the Dead, now is a pundit on the whole arena of intellectual property. He sees modern copyright law as stifling the sharing which has been a key underpinning of civilization and its advancement.
Something that may help is Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig's upcoming launch of Creative Commons. I don't know enough about the details to judge whether or not it's workable, but it sounds like a huge improvement over the current situation, in which you have music labels and movie studios spending millions of dollars litigating to maintain their right to overcharge for CDs.
Something that may help is Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig's upcoming launch of Creative Commons. I don't know enough about the details to judge whether or not it's workable, but it sounds like a huge improvement over the current situation, in which you have music labels and movie studios spending millions of dollars litigating to maintain their right to overcharge for CDs.