Word: copyright
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...started with patronage, where you got to make art if the Pope liked it, then we moved to copyright, which moves it into the realm of industrial capital. Given the falling cost of capitalizing art, we’re now moving into a place where audience interest is a much closer indicator of whether art gets to exist...
Cory Doctorow: The objective of any industrial policy aimed at increasing the pool of work, like copyright, should be to decentralize the decision-making process about who gets to say whether or not a work gets to exist...
...Developing Nations license, there’s a moral question about copyright in the developing world. Presently, developing nations are being arm-twisted into adopting copyright systems that were developed by and for developed nations. International agreements like the WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty] of 1996, which is now being incorporated into a lot of the U.S. free-trade agreements, are a kind of information feudalism...
...Ryan said that it can be difficult for faculty members to keep pace with the rapidly advancing field of digital resources, and suggested that the Core office and department heads remind faculty members to check Harvard’s resources before copyright fees are paid...
...Greenfield said that if indeed the high prices of coursepacks are largely avoidable, forcing students to pay the copyright fee twice is “almost fraudulent” and “entirely unreasonable.” But, he added, “cheaper coursepacks may be far more realistic than anyone has been thinking they were, and that’s exciting...