As I noted above in another comment, Dean's been doing a series of these, in the spirit of the book and TV show Life After People. He's not saying that people who want to fix copyright want to abolish it (although there are some who do). He's simply starting with an interesting, if extreme, premise, and following it through to what he feels are the logical conclusion.
Also, Big Industry sometimes abuses the creators as well as their customers. That's why we have a lot of creators going their own way in this Internet age, and managing to be successful about it.
Dean's piece really provoked me, and not in a good way -- it didn't come across to me as a interesting thought experiment rather than an extreme and misleading argument in support of the *current* copyright scheme.
I ought to have rephrased my remark about Big Industry so that it was clear that I believe they benefit at the expense of the writers, artists, and musicians they claim to support. :)
And to further clarify, I'm not against businesses who actually *do* have *mutually* beneficial relationships with their talent, and I do believe such businesses exists, but they are most emphatically not the RIAA, MPAA, etc.
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:30 pm (UTC)Also, Big Industry sometimes abuses the creators as well as their customers. That's why we have a lot of creators going their own way in this Internet age, and managing to be successful about it.
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:50 pm (UTC)I ought to have rephrased my remark about Big Industry so that it was clear that I believe they benefit at the expense of the writers, artists, and musicians they claim to support. :)
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:57 pm (UTC):)