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A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle

Posted by michael on from the journalism-is-the-first-draft dept.

sconeu writes "The National Journal has an article detailing the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. An interesting read, it discusses the tech industry's early miscues, and the efforts made to ensure that Hollywood isn't the only voice heard on the Hill."

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  1. Outlawing The Right to Read by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    CBDTPA & other such future laws will outlaw information sharing. They will forbid the fundamental right to share. It is very important to understand this process.

    (1) "The Right to Read" by Richard M. Stallman.

    http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

    (The important thing about this story is that it was written before the DMCA was even proposed!)

    (2) "What's Wrong With Copy Protection" by John Gilmore.

    http://cryptome.org/jg-wwwcp.htm

    (3) "Re-evaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail" by Richard M. Stallman.

    http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyrig ht.html

    What is copyright, and what is it meant to accomplish? How can we tell whether it is meeting its goals?

    This was also written before the DMCA; Stallman argued that copyright law had _already_ gone too far.

    (4) Sold Out, By James Boyle

    http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/faculty/boyle/sold _out.htm