If you sell ('trade') any of that information you produce, then you're a part of the industry.
It's that lack of specificity that makes the term "Copyright Industry" such a poor coinage.
That, as the grandparent stated, it makes industry subsets of motion pictures, trial lawyers, publishing, television, software, advertising, and even manufacturing (box copy), makes the term "copyright industry" way too ambiguous to be useful.
If the term is meant to apply to industry organizations that have been working very hard to enforce and extend copyright law (please notice no value is assigned to that statement regarding how well intentioned or misguided that work is) certainly some other term might better describe the *AA organizations for headline usage.
The worst part about this article is the reaction from the Deputy Director of SF's Telecommunications Commision. There's a tragedy in the lack of forward thinking. For her to essentially say, "we're doing really great now, there's no reason to look at anything free since a corporation is taking such good care of us", is sad corporate toadying.
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It's that lack of specificity that makes the term "Copyright Industry" such a poor coinage.
That, as the grandparent stated, it makes industry subsets of motion pictures, trial lawyers, publishing, television, software, advertising, and even manufacturing (box copy), makes the term "copyright industry" way too ambiguous to be useful.
If the term is meant to apply to industry organizations that have been working very hard to enforce and extend copyright law (please notice no value is assigned to that statement regarding how well intentioned or misguided that work is) certainly some other term might better describe the *AA organizations for headline usage.
The worst part about this article is the reaction from the Deputy Director of SF's Telecommunications Commision. There's a tragedy in the lack of forward thinking. For her to essentially say, "we're doing really great now, there's no reason to look at anything free since a corporation is taking such good care of us", is sad corporate toadying.