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Boyle on Webcasters and WIPO

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the adversity-is-good-for-the-soul dept.

pjones writes "It's always amazing to see an article in Financial Times that supports webcasters and open source, but James Boyle sticks it to the World Intellectual Property Organization in his latest article, "More rights are wrong for webcasters." Boyle lays it out so that "economists, political scientists and people who simply want to make money" can get what's wrong."

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  1. Unfortunate decisions by fortunate people by h0tr0d · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's unfortunate that the masses have to succumb to the decisions of the elite. The elite who likely don't use the technology they are so afraid of. The elite who don't believe that anyone should have access to anything unless there is an exchange of payment in some form. It's too bad that they didn't learn anything from all those hours in college and all of the shared knowledge and experienced they gained so much from. For without the sharing of knowledge our society would be a hapless group of lemmings merely wandering in a senseless existence....oh wait....