I'm not sure, at this point, the conversation is being derailed. The chief counsel for google entitled his discussion (link above) Seven Ways to Ruin a Technological Revolution. You don't have to get too far into his talk to hear him say that one of those ways is to try to "control" content. Other than what has been granted copyright and patent, his feeling is what is on the internet is public, as long as what is being copied is not used as a commodity, or in other words, sold in some other form. His mantra - if google is doing it, it must be legal. And so we see the google search engines pulling up copy and leading people there, free google blog software, encouraging everyone to post at no cost. We copy and paste things here from other sources all the time as part of the discussion and while we might mention a name, we certainly don't make a full legal footnote with copyright info. Why? Because we are not reselling the info and making a profit, so it is not necessary. We are siting information. People are learning at faster rates because of it.
One of the reasons that I began that blog was to expand the idea of my friend (and originally Plato) that dialogue raises consciousness. The thought of expanding this from a IONS cafe talk group to a global internet group was fascinating and I can honestly say that for me, in this group, dialogue has expanded my thinking and network of people that I trust and whose ideas I respect. If we had to stop and reference each idea with author, edition, page etc like we do for published work that is copyrighted through the office of copyrights, the immediacy of expression would be gone, the learning curve would flatten, the groups would be to cumbersome to participate in. I do not think that this is what google intended when it developed its free blogs or groups. Advances in technology are becoming such that social networks can now be linked, so that one post on twitter, facebook, a google blog and countless other pages can have one source of input and appear on multiple platforms. We can even have a page that pulls RSS from multiple other pages. There is a freedom of information here that means the same information gets to more people through multiple internet sources. It is a truly magnificient system, and unless someone is making big bucks or winning the Pulitzer with one of my poems, I want my words and ideas out there like that. So, I think, should everyone. We give up control. In return, we get freedom. On Jul 24, 4:02 pm, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > I won't de-rail this thread any more with talk about copyright (feel free to > start another if you have something to say). The moderators are talking > about this over email. > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
