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The Copyright Fuss Revisited

Posted by michael on from the apartment-will-clean-itself dept.

mpawlo writes "I was going to clean up my apartement, but instead I wrote a piece for Greplaw introducing a framework for the debate on how we should obtain a balance between users and authors where the author has good incentives to innovate, but where society at large is not too restricted due to the author's previous innovations. I am afraid that I personally have few practical solutions to introduce, but you might find my text useful as a quick introduction to what the copyright fuss is all about and why you should care."

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  1. heavy writer by WPIDalamar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I was going to clean up my apartement, but instead I wrote a piece for Greplaw"

    wow... when I skip cleaning my apartment, I usually end up playing a game of BF1942 or perhaps watch a bit on the tube. This guy goes out and writes a rather long essay on intellectual property that actually reads fairly well.

  2. If it were me... by tmark · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to clean up my apartement, but instead I wrote a piece for Greplaw

    If I was this guy, I would be the most prolific contributor to Greplaw. Legal scholars would be citing my works as I am always looking for ways to put off cleaning my apartment.

    Thank heavens for slovenliness, or we would have one fewer article to throw on the copyright flame-heap here.