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“In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.”

Nathan Myhrvold

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Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial…

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Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the…

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I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first…

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In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a…

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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would…

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In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a people or a society, even if they are wars of survival for certain businesses or, more accurately, business models. Thus we must keep i mind the other values or objectives that might also be affected…

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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

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