Hi Rob, I very much agree with your text on this one & have also read these books which are great...
marc > Quoting marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> http://www.metamute.org/en/Copyfarleft-and-Copyjustright >> > > Mute have been excellent at publishing articles that constructively > question received wisdom from free software, free culture and their > opponents but I found that this article wasn't based on a good > understanding of the issues. > > Like Lessig on a bad day, it accepts the starving artist lone genius > mythology peddled by the RIAA and tries to protect artists from > economic loss in the face of copyleft. This is a pre-Napster, > pre-MySpace worldview that doesn't understand the economics of the > music industry or the sociology of creativity. This is compounded by a > failure to see the economic irony of copyleft, or how copyleft > prevents alienation of labour value. And by ignoring other authors > writings on the property question and IP; notably Stallman's "Why > Software Should Not Have Owners" which would undermine its opening > claims, and Lessig's writing on rent-seeking which would make some of > its claims seem less novel. > > It's an interesting read but deeply flawed. > > I recommend the following books: > > "Free Software, Free Society" - Richard Stallman > "Free Culture" - Lawrence Lessig > "A Hacker Manifesto" Mackenzie Wark > > And the Mute issue "Beneath The Knowledge Commons". > > All are available in print or online. > > - Rob. > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
