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Grey Zone CopyTheory - Yes.

Filed under: — Jeremy Clarke @ 4:32 pm - Jun 09, 2006

Image of the copyfightDude at a european conference about digital creativity and collaboration made a that’s - exactly - what - I - was - thinking - but - couldn’t - say - properly speech about how digitality exacerbates and complicates the relation between “works”, “creators” and “copies” to the point where a complete overhaul of our understanding is necessary. He also points out how the network and the bits make current copyright policy look like a laws against player pianos or VCRs (both of which, of course, were narrowly dodged when the technologies emerged and sound as ridiculous now as the idea of a law against file-sharing will sound in fourty years).

The text can get a bit theory-heavy at times but is definitely more rewarding than difficult if you like this kind of stuff.

Read it here.

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  1. Maria loves pictures | June 15th, 2006 at 3:13 am

    Yes agree with you, the law against file-sharing may sound very ridiculous in fourty years. I think it is already ridiculous to make people illegal, because they share music or video with a couple of friends.

  2. Dinosaurier i gråzonen « Copyriot | November 26th, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    […] Känns som att åhörarna på plats var delade i två grupper: Dels skeptikerna som uppfattade Piratbyråns tankar som blott en slags ideologisk överbyggnad till de där giriga fildelarnas ekonomiska egenintresse. Dels de som intresserade sig direkt för frågorna om gråzoner, kulturell cirkulation och informationens infrastrukturer. Ett par av konferensens övriga talare som kom fram direkt efteråt var mycket entusiastiska. Däribland JP Rangaswami (CIO på en stor investmentbank, som själv begravde både upphovsrätten och annat), och Malcolm Matson (mångårig affärsman i brittiska telekombranschen som nu leder OPLAN foundation och som i Köpenhamn passionerat pläderade för öppna nätverk). Det är förstås vansinnigt kul att se hur den senare på sin blogg utnämner Piratbyråns föredrag till “the best argued and most coherent paper to state the case for the absurdity and impossibility of hoping that existing principles of copyright and intellectual property can be force-fitted into the new digital paradigm“! Tydligen så refererade även Lawrence Lessig till texten när han talade i Köpenhamn i söndags, i samband med Creative Commons danska lansering. […]

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