Sunday, December 23, 2007

Questions about copyright law

I have been reading Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture lately, after a friend recommended it. It's very interesting. Right now I'm in chapter 4. (I wish I had more time to read!)

Here are some of the questions the book has raised:
  • What is the extent of our right to ownership of private property?
  • What is "property"?
  • What does it mean to take away our right to property? (This is important. Does it just mean depriving the owner of gain, financial or otherwise? Or does it include any use of another person's property?)
I have not come to any conclusions yet about what copyright law should be.

1 comment:

DebaterPrime said...

The best solution that I've seen to at least the music part of copyright has been proposed by the EFF (btw a great organization). It's called "voluntary collective licensing."

http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collective-licensing-music-file-sharing