--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Dundas wrote: > > Lawrence Lessig did an introductory talk at the New York Public Library > > about copyright law and technology on April 7, 2005. > > He says that copyright laws stifle creativity, and democracy. It's an > > idea that begs the question. Would you stop creating what you create if > > someone could just take it and do whatever they wanted with it? > > Like, say, the Veoh issue...? > > > Some folks seem to conjugate the verb "I have privacy rights, you have > terms-of-service, he has evil DRM." Humans produce digital bits, and to > be full citizens I think we need to respect the privacy/copyright > decisions of others. > > (I think the Sonny Bono extensions to US copyright law were pretty > bogus, but more and more I'm realizing that creativity and privacy are > inextricably linked... if you create some digital bits, does that mean > anyone else has the right to repurpose them? Suppose they ignore your > precious little Creative Commons text, what recourse do you have to that > breach of an assumed social contract?) > > jd > > > > > -- > John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd > Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. >
This is an interesting area of questions. While a creative work in digital form only exists because someone who created it put it out. At the same time when a work is out in the world and available, can what is done with it be controlled -- particularly when the work exists in the form of reproducible copies? At the same time, I don't think the "culture" argument is sound. Mainly because "culture" appears to be an ill defined term and thus somewhat meaningless. -- Enric -======- http://www.cirne.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
