[Oceania-video] Fwd: Liang on copyright in documentary

[pabs]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:04 +0530, and wrote:

> this is a good intro to things like creative commons and other such
> open content licensing systems by indian lawyer lawrence liang. he
> also tackles the issue from a much more radical (anti-capitalist)
> perspective than lawrence lessig (creative commons guru) and offers
> some good critiques of CC whilst at the same being engaged in the
> indian CC process.

A critique of copyright/CC from a free software perspective:
http://mako.yukidoke.org/copyrighteous/ip/20050210-00.html

Specifically this paragraph rings true for me:

        We all know that copyleft is enabled through copyright. As a
        result, there is a tendency for software freedom advocates to
        argue for stronger copyleft by, explicitly or implicitly (and
        often unintentionally), arguing for stronger copyright. This is
        *wrong*. I don't believe in peace through war and I don't
        believe in free access to information through stronger copyright
        -- as a stategic technique or as a ethically defensible
        strategy.

I'm also looking forward to when he publishes this:

        This happens to integrate quite well with more fundamental
        critique of Creative Commons that I have written but I'll save
        that for another day.

Some interesting comments on that post too.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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