Patry pulls plug on Copyright Blog due to state of copyright law
- added August 5, 2008
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The popular copyright blog has been shut down by blogger William Patry because, he says, the present state of copyright law is "too depressing."
"Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately."
Do you agree that copyright law has gone from a measure of protection to a way to turn profit at expense of creativity and innovation?
"Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately."
Do you agree that copyright law has gone from a measure of protection to a way to turn profit at expense of creativity and innovation?
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