http://madisonian.net/2006/05/03/the-drama-of-fair-use/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:22:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/05/03/the-drama-of-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-23238 Andrew Fri, 05 May 2006 03:51:24 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=642#comment-23238 I may have missed the point you were trying to make, but it seems to me that if copyright is the wrong 'language' to resolve issues of this kind, then tort is just a list of expletives... I may have missed the point you were trying to make, but it seems to me that if copyright is the wrong ‘language’ to resolve issues of this kind, then tort is just a list of expletives…

]]> http://madisonian.net/2006/05/03/the-drama-of-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-23156 MT Thu, 04 May 2006 06:51:39 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=642#comment-23156 Well, now I feel silly to assume such harshness, since to some extent it we can choose to give holders of old-style rights the benefit of their bargain even if we choose to create such rights henceforth. It's late, and I don't know very well what I'm talking about. Well, now I feel silly to assume such harshness, since to some extent it we can choose to give holders of old-style rights the benefit of their bargain even if we choose to create such rights henceforth. It’s late, and I don’t know very well what I’m talking about.

]]> http://madisonian.net/2006/05/03/the-drama-of-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-23155 MT Thu, 04 May 2006 06:38:46 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=642#comment-23155 Susan became who she is in a certain kind of world with certain avenues of self expression. A change in the rules doesn't squelch human nature. Human nature is a river that will find other ways to manifest itself. But diverting the river causes suffering in the short term--to the generation the spans the regimes. A change in intellectual property conventions is a revolution, and even a "velvet" revolution has "victims"--that people whose reasonably placed emotional, personal, monetary and real estate investments suddenly become devalued or even appropriated or redistributed to the new lucky ones. There's my meditation. Susan became who she is in a certain kind of world with certain avenues of self expression. A change in the rules doesn’t squelch human nature. Human nature is a river that will find other ways to manifest itself. But diverting the river causes suffering in the short term–to the generation the spans the regimes. A change in intellectual property conventions is a revolution, and even a “velvet” revolution has “victims”–that people whose reasonably placed emotional, personal, monetary and real estate investments suddenly become devalued or even appropriated or redistributed to the new lucky ones. There’s my meditation.

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