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Copyright Law for the Future: Control & Creativity

Posted by michael on from the control-and-more-control dept.

ablair writes: "MacSurfer is linking to a truly excellent article by Stanford Law's Lawrence Lessig, on the copyright balance between Control & Creativity. A must-read for those interested in everything from the RIAA-mp3 battles to the way GPL & BSD Licenses should be."

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  1. What Larry doesn't get... by Sanity · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...is that not only has law been misapplied with respect to the Internet (and communication technologies generally), but that the law has no place in regulating people's ability to communicate.

    In the US, the Law gets its authority from democratically elected government. The Government gets its authority from the people, as conveyed through the democratic process (voting). If the Government has control over the information the people have access to, then they have the ability to manipulate people's ability to make an informed voting decision. This corrupts the very democratic process from which the law gets its authority.