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Lessig on Streamcast/Grokster Decision
scubacuda writes "Lessig has an editorial in Financial Times regarding
the recent court decision in favor Streamcast (which distributes "Morpheus") and Grokster. 'The wisdom of this rule is something innovators in Silicon Valley are increasingly coming to see. When courts intervene to maintain copyright's balance, the inevitable consequence is that innovation is harmed. If every innovator with technologies affecting content must bear the burden of a lawsuit before his innovation can be allowed, there will be many fewer innovations in the distribution and creation of content. That in turn will harm artists and technologists alike. Better to let the innovation happen, and then consider whether the change caused by the innovation is so significant as to require new legislation by the legislature.'"
People using Grokster, Kazaa, Morpheus, Gnutella2, etc. are thieves (for the most part)
.. never.
Its a good job you at least put that comment in the braces there, but you're still generalising. Don't do that.
The last time I found a nice piece of uncopyrighted material on kazaa and not on Google was
Thats a bogus argument. Google is a web search engine, P2P networks are a distribution mechanism. Just because you can find stuff on the web with Google does not make P2P any less legitimate.
Google is a web search engine, P2P networks are a distribution mechanism.
You fail to realize that http is a perfectly good P2P protocol with a hop count of (almost always) 1 (you to the server, in the cases where no caches or proxies are in between). Just because it doesn't come with a l33t -ster name like "napster" doesn't make it any less P2P. And google operates over this p2p protocol, just like kazaa's (and the others) search engine operates over its p2p protocol.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Doesn't it class as an excerpt for reporting purposes? Surely fair dealing (UK IP law) ... I happen to work in IP and know that IP experts allow the posting of newspaper articles as clippings ... what's the difference here?