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March 16, 2005
Seltzer on the Copyfight and Democracy (Donna Wentworth)
No kidding, folks. How can one have a democracy when one can't even express ideas for fear of running afoul of intellectual property law, even when their speech is decidedly non commercial?
Wendy Seltzer: "The Madrid Summit was outside my usual realm of intellectual property law, but the change served to remind me that while the copyfight is but a small part of the picture, the principles we're fighting for are more than music. ....At least a part of [the task of promoting democracy] is communication -- communicating with other democratic citizens and with other people seeking democracy. ...I don't think it's stretching too far to say that protecting against abuses of privacy, copyright or trademark online strengthens these tools of democracy."
[Copyfight]Posted by mikki at March 16, 2005 01:26 PM
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