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For all intents and purposes all creation is incremental. In the sense that someone sees something, and says "Hey, that's a great idea, but it would be better i
by bediger 15y ago
For all intents and purposes all creation is incremental. In the sense that someone sees something, and says "Hey, that's a great idea, but it would be better if I changed it like this...".
Prove this to yourself: find out who invented television.
So, weaker copyrights would encourage incremental innovation, the kind that really takes place. Adding a "fair use" doctrine, which is "radical" reform in the article, almost certainly only helps the content creators in that it frees up other people to reference previous creations, driving interest in, and use of, those previous creations.
As far as radicalizing copyright into so-called "Digital Rights Management", remember: "DRM is about political and economic subjugation".
- adsr 15y agoWell you are wrong, because you are arguing about patents on which we agree. Copyright is not related in any way, patents is the "protection of ideas" which is especially unfit in the field of software. Let me explain. Let's say you are creating software project. You are then automatically protected by the copyright law, this means that you are the one who decides on how your work should be distributed and copied. Let's say you now decide to open source the project, as the copyright owner you can then license the software under the terms in for example GPL or BSD etc. Without this basic right that license would be worth nothing, and some one could simply take it, re-package it and take credit for it. Related to this article, a weakened copyright law could just as well be harmful to local economy since foreign companies may just chose to not make business there, like some companies treat for example China. Check this informative lecture by Richard Stallman on software patents, and the confusion with copyright and the so called IP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmKy_LP6JPQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmKy_LP6JPQ&feature=relat... (it starts about 2 min in)