Jonathan Zittrain On The Spiderweb of Copyright Law

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 3, 2003 @05:12AM from the it's-the-arbitrary-stupid dept.

Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, takes an unusual approach to critiquing copyright in this Legal Affairs article. He explains with an analogy to the bizarre patchwork of United States tax codes a reason that (in the words of one of Zittrain's colleagues) "all the cyberprofs hate copyright." It goes beyond simple indignation that current copyright laws often grant seemingly unfair monopoly powers, and into the tangled minutia of the laws themselves.

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Re:For those of you who can't read... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-03 06:24 · Score: -1, Troll

"/. ain't for the ignorant"

aaaaah...bwahahahahahahaaa*snort*bwahahahaaaa...

Sorry, but if I ever wanted to get the opinion of some over-zealous people (me included) who don't understand the argument before they argue, this is the first stop...

mod me down -1: ignorant