[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Copyright violations are a real problem - At least I think we can all agree?

[Joly MacFie]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:


 Is it the “violations” that are the problem – or is the real problem
> related to the way in which copyrights are defined and handled?
>
> As long as we, in the Internet Society, proudly work under the slogan*“The Internet is for everyone”
> * we seriously should take up the “real problems” at the basis of the
> present copyrights regime and the grave injustices which it creates,
> calling a very large numbers of everyone using the Internet to be pirates.
> Pirates are violent killers.
>
>
>


Hi Norbert,

I recall Lynn, I think it was at an ITU Conference a couple of years back,
in response to a question about restrictive policies, saying that the open
Internet routes around obstacles. I think that while social and application
matters are a real and valid concern, it is the peculiar and transcendental
purpose of the Internet Society to maintain the openness of the Internet,
in order that such circumvention is always possible.


In the case of Microsoft, valued organizational ISOC member that it is,
Bill Gates has shown a sophisticated understanding of what he calls the
"snowball effect" caused by having ubiquitous products, legitimate or
otherwise. In fact, in my recollection, MS-DOS was the first widely used
copying tool, capable of even duplicating itself! As it is we have seen in
recent years the use restrictions for individual users on MS-OFFICE reduced
from outright protection to voluntary activation. One imagines as much
driven by the availability of open/free alternatives as any altruism.

I hope you managed to watch the related discussion at the Global INET
(which I will soon transfer over to YouTube). I particularly liked the
comments by Nick Ashton-Hart that in many cases the issue is not so much a
copyright problem as a licensing one, and that, lacking any more detailed
arrangement, the default should be permission.

Two recent books on copyright reform:

How To Fix Copyright - William Patry -  Oxford University Press (not
available for d/l but, as he notes in my recent video, torrentable)

The Case for Copyright Reform - Christian Engström + Rick Falkvinge -
http://www.copyrightreform.eu/

j

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