for everyone

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch proposes a “Digital Bill of Rights” with: The Right to Use and Reuse Content: Consumers know that digital copies of songs, words, and videos are qualitatively different than physical copies, yet copyright law treats them the same way. When the economics of scarcity no longer apply, consumers start to behave differently. [...]

I’m starting this blog to examine the increasingly complex world of copyright, fair use, and electronic publishing — and how it all relates to the general public (like me) and business. I am of course writing from my own perspective, not that of my employer, and I hope to disseminate the key ideas that influence [...]