> From: Rob Myers > But it is wrong to look on this as (sigh) a "gift economy". It isn't > about value, it's about rights. Anything else is a secondary > effect, an epiphenomena.
And YouTube is an epiphenomenon of copyright (along with no doubt many others). YouTube cannot enable the download of uploaded works because copyright/DMCA forbids it. It can only 'stream' potentially copyright restricted material because the law actually permits that - until a takedown notice is received. Abolish copyright and the likes of YouTube can be created that do not appear to be based upon a 'walled garden' model. Google has probably realised that YouTube isn't threatened by the dissolution of copyright, that it's therefore a sound long term investment. _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list fc-uk-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
