I like the idea of a response fashioned like the one theoatmeal did. Maybe we can do both a visual piece as well as a written piece?
I'm on board to help out with both in collaboration with Questioncopyright. I'm in DC for the summer with too much free time. :> Jennifer On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]>wrote: > FWIW, we've just been discussing over at QuestionCopyright.org whether > to do a length rebuttal of David Lowery's open letter [1]. > > While it would take a while to construct a good response [2], on the > other hand a good one would likely get some eyeballs -- including some > of the people who saw the original. So it's a great opportunity. > > If anyone here is drafting such a beast, please let us know, here or via > http://questioncopyright.org/contact. A truly well-done rebuttal is > something we'd love to run; we've just got other stuff in the pipeline > right now that makes it hard to draft a response to this too (lesson #1: > number of opportunities will always exceed available resources :-) ). > > I saw http://piratepad.net/KY6e7xIdkm which is a good brainstorm of > ideas, but not, of course, a finished piece. > > -Karl > > [1] > http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at- > npr-all-songs-considered/<http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/> > > [2] http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response is one rather nice example > of how to do such rebuttals :-). > > Nate Otto <[email protected]> writes: > >I love how the " the duration of the copyright term is pretty much > >irrelevant for an ethical discussion." is so casually slipped in > >there. > > > >The main thrust of what I've read so far is that it is not government's > >responsibility to ensure that artists are fairly compensated. Except > >that it is explicitly Congress's job to "promote the progress of > >science and the useful arts" through arranging the underlying > >principles of the marketplace. > > > >Governments so far have set up a metaphor of intellectual property to > >guide this marketplace, and this article is fully grounded in that > >tradition. I think there are problems with that metaphor that are > >brought to our attention by what digital technology makes possible. > > > >In giving advice to people who want to work in the music industry, I > >would point to reports like "The Sky is Rising" that Ali linked to and > >encourage people to embrace the possibilities of business models not > >built on the artificial scarcity of digital objects. It is not moral > >to create scarcity out of abundance for the cause of rent seeking. > > > >This all might not be relevant to SFC's response to the piece, but I > >completely agree that this is a moral discussion. > > > >But not all moral premises are valid. When budgeting morally, what > >percent of income does a generation in an average of $25k of debt have > >to spend on CDs? As much as their parents could spend? > > > >Anyway, there is a moral discussion to be had, but it does not start > >from accepting every metaphor that guided the music business before it > >became possible to distribute all music to everyone who wanted it > >without additional costs. > > > >I may have more to add in a day or two, the next time I come up for > >air. > > > >-Nate > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Discuss mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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