Free Culture class
Lawrence Solum (who has entered an elite status after Vint Cerf gave a paper praising his Layers Principle paper) is running a blog-class this week on Free Culture. Follow along (as I will be) and learn.
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Lawrence Solum (who has entered an elite status after Vint Cerf gave a paper praising his Layers Principle paper) is running a blog-class this week on Free Culture. Follow along (as I will be) and learn.
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Comments (4)
Any link to Vint's paper?
I second the question (if that's the right term).
In re free culture: According to this, the film Reefer Madness didn't become widely known until (and, the implied suggestion is, because) its copyright expired.
The article speaks of films that "languish" in the public domain. I would retort that the public domain is the only true home of works of the human mind.
I applaud these excellent principles. Free Culture should remain that and not be subsumed into agencies, authorities or anyone else. See Cyberlaw for more ethical discussion