Thursday, October 17, 2013
Creative Commons says it is not a patch deferring copyright reform; Obama criticizes "bloggers" and professional activists for profiting from Congressional disarray
Creative Commons has a policy statement and
discussion by Timothy Vollmer, Oct.16, 2013, with basic link here. Creative Commons suggests that the
success of CC in reducing legal costs in sharing intellectual property in areas
where interests are largely educational and less driven by profit, does not
obviate the need for focused copyright reform.
Without reform, legislators are tempted to overact to claims of
infringement (as with the attempts to pass SOPA and PIPA). And large corporate content owners tend to
use overreaching methods to discourage piracy, and sometimes fail to provide
content in innovative formats that consumers prefer. For example, studios are often very slow to
make major films available by DVD or for legal (with rental or purchase)
Internet streaming.
Today, President Obama chided Congress for not doing
its job, and particularly for being overly influenced by lobbyists,
professional activists who profit from disorder, and even “bloggers”. I suppose he could have been referring to the
extreme positions taken in some of the right-wing blogs, as well as “disinformation”
about the default deniers (in the debt ceiling debate). I even self-published some analysis showing
that it was very unlikely that a default would occur for several weeks. I tweeted a lot of people, maybe a few of
whom don’t talk to one another. I was
only trying to see a settlement. There
was a risk, however slight mathematically or unlikely, or a real
catastrophe. Out of “enlightened” self-interest, I didn’t want to run that risk in my own
retirement situation, even if I had not been directly affected yet.
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