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Larry Lessig How creativity is being strangled by the law (TED talk.)
Disney "Steamboat Willy"
Donnie Darko
Disneys Fillmore
SXEPhil
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This is a mans world - James Brown


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[HeBreaksLate]

I think the biggest problem with copyright law, as it now stands, is that "fair use" is so nebulously defined. For the most part, you can never be sure whether or not a certain use of copyrighted material is allowed under the "fair use" exception until a judge adjudicates, at which point it's too late. Sadly, there's no real, practical way to more clearly define "fair use". Patents on medications, however, are another story.

[HeBreaksLate]

The ability to patent a developed technology, whether it be a treatment for AIDS or the iPhone, creates a structure whereby the innovator is able to profit on the sale of the product. Patents are irrevocably tied to capitalism. You can't have one without the other. Without patents, there is no economic incentive to innovate and without capitalism, there is no private property, real or intellectual.

[honestovlog]

@HeBreaksLate "Without patents, there is no economic incentive to innovate'

Not necessarily. Just because someone can build on your work doesn't mean it is useless. Take the iPhone for example. If that was open you would still have the MASSIVE advantage of getting to the market place with the technology FIRST. So even when the shitty knock offs of your tech are produced, you are already working on the next big thing. Thus, economic incentive to innovate.

[honestovlog]

@HeBreaksLate If you are actually interested Larry Lessig wrote a book about how free culture is not only possible in a capitalist society, it actually HELPS a capitalist society.

[honestovlog]

@HeBreaksLate Fair use is defined perfectly, for text. We need a law that represents the 21st century and our abilities to manipulate video in the same way that 100 years ago people could manipulate text.

[ekpil2000]

Referencing Wikipedia it seems early incarnations of copyright were specifically to censor and only allow their own propaganda.

Spurring innovation was a later consideration. One I don't think can be readily proven and is even less plausible given the conditions today.

[Nannirk]

Free culture, yay!

I love the Creative Commons and the Copyleft movement.

Not because I want all my culture to be free, but because I want it to be FREE.

[RogueBlueJay]

@vidvip I would love to see that actually. And to be totally honest, I would have no problem with that, it would be an interesting thing if people watched and believed it.

[Pook365]

@HeBreaksLate

Well as there are no capitalist states it would hardly be a big step.

Goverments continually pass laws that cost businesses money for the good of the people.

[HeBreaksLate]

@Pook365 But that wouldn't be capitalism. That would be communo-fascism of the kind described by Hayek in "The Road to Serfdom". If the government interposes too much in the pharmaceutical industry, AIDS research could become unprofitable, and thus no one would do it, and then we'd be worse off than we are now.

[Pook365]

@HeBreaksLate

This is the problem, they don't give a shit...so they should be forced to act as if they do by laws.

[vidvip]

I agree with you but... I could take your video and edit it to make you say that patent law is good for the creativity of business. Then I would add a voiceover and make you look like a jerk supporting copyright laws. We do it all the time in political ads here in the States.

It's a double edged sword.

Cheers and good on ya,

Thom ;)

[tangerinealarm]

Excellent fascinating video.

Concise and interesting to watch.

[HeBreaksLate]

@Pook365 You seem to be under the misapprehension that a capitalist is supposed to give a damn about the human condition. Drug companies aren't trying to cure AIDS because it's the right thing to do. They do it because they know it'll make them filthy rich. Capitalism's only concern is profit. Government regulations can make it so that doing the right thing is more profitable (taxing negative behavior and subsidizing positive), but corporations still only care about profit.

[Pook365]

I'm sure at somepoint I will be taken to court for my use of P2P to get movies and TV not otherwise availlable to me.

They will claim that I've cost them some vast and unfathomable amount of money, but the truth is I've not cost them anything.

I don't have the money to go to the cinema every week, or indeed to subscribe to what ever TV channels I would need....to still get a much worse service.

The only movies I wouid pay for are the ones I already do, I'd just not see the others.