7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution

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Google Tech Talks
December 18, 2006

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If you wanted to undermine the technological revolution of the last 30 years, using the law, how would you do it? How would you undercut the virtuous cycle that results from access to an open network, force technological innovation into stagnation, diminish competition, create monopolies over the basic building blocks of knowledge? How many of those things are we doing now? James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and a Board Member of Creative Commons. He is also a columnist for the Financial Times New Technology Policy Forum. His most recent books were...

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  • You would think, given the subject, Google would have been kind enough to license the video under Creative Commons or something.

    Wonderfully ironic to hear him discuss western culture being locked away by copyright, immediately followed by a prominent "Copyright 2006 Google, Inc. All rights reserved., Other uses, either in whole or part, are strictly prohibited without express permission of the copyright owner."

  • Very well spoken. A pleasure to listen to. He magnifies and illuminates the nanotopologies of the issue. There is so much rhetoric being spouted about on both sides of the issue of intellectual property rights that folks get lost in a cloud of half-truths and outright misinformation. A lot of folks are not thieves at heart, but just need some clearer sense of an inherently amorphous problem.

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  • You forgot something: that technology revolution is inverse of our biological revolution.

    As we depended more on technology, we relies less on ourselves, the products of our genes and hence we turned ourselves off and diminish our own roles in THE NATURAL WORLD!

    The world that God created was not just for us. The existence of Adam and Eva and other organisms was in the natural world. But bc of our corruption, we 've to refit the world to our needs, our images because we are weak!

  • Today I saw this: You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web." and I realized it's the first time I've been politely asked not to copy, instead of legal bullshit and legal threats being thrust at me. I hope others take notice.

  • @greatsea hur?

  • Great video.  Digg is so cool.

  • Nice video

  • I really enjoyed watching this.

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