Doctorow On Copyright Reform & Culture

super-papa sends us to Locus Magazine for an article by Cory Doctorow discussing the conflicts between copyright law and modern culture, and arguing against the perception that copying media is still unusual. Quoting: "Copyright law valorizes copying as a rare and noteworthy event. On the Internet, copying is automatic, massive, instantaneous, free, and constant. Clip a Dilbert cartoon and stick it on your office door and you're not violating copyright. Take a picture of your office door and put it on your homepage so that the same co-workers can see it, and you've violated copyright law, and since copyright law treats copying as such a rarified activity, it assesses penalties that run to the hundreds of thousands of dollars for each act of infringement. There's a word for all the stuff we do with creative works — all the conversing, retelling, singing, acting out, drawing, and thinking: we call it culture."

Comments

Cory needs a swirly

[Anonymous Coward]

He's a dweeb among nerds.

boingboing sux

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard that Cory Doctorow is a notorious infantilist and diaper fetishist.
Cory farted.
Xenicock?

Re:Tell us something we don't know

[Anonymous Coward]

funny joke:

Q: What do you call a black president?

A: nigger

Re:Tell us something we don't know

[Anonymous Coward]

This guy has had an obsession with copyright law bordering on the pathological forever, like the US copyright office murdered his family. something. Whenever you see his name in "print", you know what it's going to be about. Someone please just reform copyright law so he can complete his Frankie Goes to Hollywood collection and so we don't have to see his art-school reject hipster face or fucking ridiculous name ever again.