Copyright vs. Community
by
Jeanne Rasata
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Published on
Sep 13, 2010 04:33 AM
Ballarat, Australia - SMB Brewery Theatre, Lydiard St South (within the SMB education complex)
| When |
Sep 16, 2010
from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
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| Where | Ballarat, Australia |
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed
to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing
press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer
networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying
for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers,
while suppressing public access to technology. But if we
seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of
copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the
public--then we must make changes in the other direction.