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I looked at the series this article was written for, and the previous article does make a suggestion, and names a group which is working for it at the WIPO. He
by LogicHoleFlaw 19y ago
I looked at the series this article was written for, and the previous article does make a suggestion, and names a group which is working for it at the WIPO.
Here's the key summary:
We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.
Hopefully my small extraction here does not fall astray of the copyright laws.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/29/copyright.law http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/29/copyright.l...
- RobF 19y agoI read the second article. It didn't help my understanding of Doctorow's position all that much. The problem, as always, is in the details. I want to understand what Doctorow thinks are the essentials of this putative "age-old normative consensus" which he finds so compelling. Just stating that such a thing exists doesn't get me any farther along to understanding the intellectual framework which he wants to use in order to make the trade off between the creator's interests and those of society at large.