Sunday, February 26, 2012
We have written several times about all an excellent Kirby Ferguson is a remix project that produced three videos that highlight the problems and history of intellectual property and how the copies and derivative works are a central element of culture and invention. Just published the fourth and last of the series, and is an excellent summary look at the general problems of intellectual property law today.
The key issue is that the theory

( treatment of ideas, inventions, content, etc. as a form of "property" - in the spirit of copyright and many supporters of the patent system), simply did not agree with
has
reality

(where almost everything is a derivative work of some type). What does it very well the video is to highlight the hypocrisy of it all. As pointed out brilliantly when

that
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(and everyone makes a copy), which justify it. When copying others, however, suddenly attack and vilify. A recent example of this first course was the defense flamboyant former New York Times, Bill Keller Executive Editor of the copy of the New York Times and the publication of a work for someone else covered the Copyright few days after his own column came out in support of stricter enforcement of copyright.

As he points out, it is psychologically understandable. It is "loss aversion." People feel a sense that "own" something that is really not - and often dictated by the concepts of intellectual property that really spread the idea that you can actually have an idea (and yes technically not the right copyright and patents are applied directly to the "ideas", but that's a nuance that most people do not understand when they see how the content and inventions are considered "property" under TODAY ' Today laws).


The video talks about the continued expansion of copyright, and harmful effort to continue to ratchet things through trade agreements like ACTA and PPT. But he also notes that it is somewhat ironic, given that in its early years, the U.S. refused to sign trade agreements similar, and was a "pirate nation" that has ignored the copyright in the world.
The video does not cover copyright only, but it is stuck in patents and, with special attention to general software patents do little to contribute to knowledge for the world, but take the general concepts and try to block the effects of the application and try to colonies of those who actually create and innovate. From there
breaks the original purpose of copyright and patents in the U.S. system. In both cases, they were about to benefit the public: to encourage learning and promote the progress of arts "useful" (inventions). But when the laws can not do that, then we should see the system as a game and try to do something.
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