David, being an honorable chair at the DRM session, didn’t manipulate the panel into treating the topic in the ways he would most have wanted. But he vented his pent-up thoughts on his site, and it’s a shame he couldn’t have challenged the panel (and audience) with them.
These are where-it’s-at questions. Go, David!
I try hard to extend my understanding into the fissures and technicalities of all the questions I engage, but on this topic I’m content to push a partisan case that runs something like this: the notion of copyright depends for its cogency on an obsolescent industrial model. We need the next idea, not complicated ways of perpetuating the old idea—especially when the ways of perpetuating the old idea end up forcing constraints onto the tremendous capacities of emerging technologies.
Posted by AKMA at October 10, 2002 05:13 PM | TrackBack