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Larry Lessig Will Headline Friday's 'Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain' Event (archive.org)
An anonymous reader quotes the Internet Archive's blog
Please join us for a Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain, featuring a keynote address by Creative Commons' founder, Lawrence Lessig, on January 25, 2019. Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons, this celebration will feature legal thought leaders, lightning talks, demos, and the chance to play with these new public domain works. The event will take place at the Internet Archive in San Francisco....
Join the creative, legal, library, and advocacy communities plus an amazing lineup of people who will highlight the significance of this new class of public domain works. Presenters include Larry Lessig, political activist and Harvard Law professor; Corynne McSherry, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-editor of Boing Boing; Pam Samuelson, copyright scholar; and Jamie Boyle, the man who literally wrote the book on the public domain, and many others.
Attendees will also receive a discount on the world premiere of DJ Spooky's Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a live concert commissioned by the Internet Archive "synthesizing data and art, both original and public domain materials, in tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media."
Join the creative, legal, library, and advocacy communities plus an amazing lineup of people who will highlight the significance of this new class of public domain works. Presenters include Larry Lessig, political activist and Harvard Law professor; Corynne McSherry, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-editor of Boing Boing; Pam Samuelson, copyright scholar; and Jamie Boyle, the man who literally wrote the book on the public domain, and many others.
Attendees will also receive a discount on the world premiere of DJ Spooky's Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a live concert commissioned by the Internet Archive "synthesizing data and art, both original and public domain materials, in tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media."
Well, the AC did con me into looking, but...
The real problem is insane economic models overriding the legitimate objectives of copyright (and patent law). What we have now is a kind of lottery mentality, looking for YUGE riches. The ACTUAL (and proper) goals were to encourage creativity and innovation.
Having said that, I think many of the solution approaches are obvious, but we can't get there from here. The winners of the crooked lotteries are bribing the cheapest politicians they can find to make the games more crooked. It's all about massive profits for the biggest corporate cancers. Gawdam anyone who tries to improve on Mickey Mouse if it might take a nickel out of Disney's coffers.
Can you imagine cost-recovery plus incentives? Compensation based on actual value received, including such values as pleasure and support for future creativity and innovation? Me neither, even though I think we have the technologies to implement many of those approaches now.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.