Fighting for the Freedom to Tinker
Business Week,
Aug 27, 2003
I will let Princeton professor Ed Felten, interviewed in this article, say it for me, via Corante: " This is the copyright wars. We're now in a situation where policy isn't just about copyright, it's about cultural and industrial policy as well. That's the point of the trend to try to defend the interests of copyright owners, which are legitimately threatened, by trying to slow down or control the development of some general-purpose technologies... In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP." And: "We will go to a model where people pay a flat fee for unlimited access, because it costs the same to provide ubiquitous access to all material as it does having restricted access to some stuff."
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