Copyright In The Digital Age

Copyright In The Digital Age
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Some new players have ended up doing what copyright law was created to
avoid – benefiting from the fruits of other people's labour without sharing the value that is created
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/30372
http://copyright-debate.co.uk/?p=690
'...In 1710 Europe was convulsed by war....'
'...Yet against this backdrop of destruction, a group of Englishmen were quietly creating something that would turn out to be of far more enduring significance than those once-famous conflicts....'
'...the flow of information and ideas my father spoke of is under threat....'
'...The Statute of Anne had a very clear purpose.  It was an Act ‘For the Encouragement of learning’....a reaction to a time of unprecedented technological change. Printing presses offered the prospect of cheap copies of books...'
'...John Locke and Daniel Defoe, who had argued that – and I quote again : ‘To print another Man’s copy is much worse than robbing him on the Highway; for the Thief takes only what he finds about him, but the Pyrate Printer takes away his inheritance.’...'
'... 
This is not a zero-sum game. If you want to offer your product for free, then there is nothing to stop you.

The only temptation you need to resist is the idea that what you want to do is what everyone else should be made to do....'

'...we stopped giving away our journalism for free...asking readers to pay a fair price...for the first time in 225 years we are selling copies of the Times on something other than paper – we’ve racked up over 100,000 sales of our digital editions. ... Eureka, the science and environment magazine of the Times, became the No.1 paid app on iTunes in the UK....'

'...Together, by taking action and valuing creativity, we can change things for the better, as society has done before at times of technological change. We need to find new ways of managing copyright that go with the grain of technology rather than falling back on cross-grained attempts in last ditch attempt to maintain a vanishing status quo....'




Joseph Harris is Smile Poet
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