Richard Stallman Talks On Copyright Vs. the People

holden writes "Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of copyright, and how it has evolved over time from something that originally served the benefit of the people to a tool used against them. In keeping with his wishes to use open formats, the talk and QA are available in ogg theora only."

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Re:I attended

[CRCulver]

The mainstream public.. not publishers, you and me.

Publishing used to be much cheaper than it is now. Tsvetaeva and Whitman, just to name two poets of yore, had the first printings of their poetry done at their own expense, since the price was low. If the common man say a profit in reproducing something, he could easily undertake it.