Comments on: Live from PACA: Playing Fair http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2009/04/live-from-paca-playing-fair/ Copyright Information Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:41:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Patrick Ross http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2009/04/live-from-paca-playing-fair/#comment-18235 Patrick Ross Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:06:05 +0000 http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/?p=413#comment-18235 Let me word it more clearly. It's a procedure as follows: 1) I take your creative work without paying for it. 2) Your only choice is to come up with a way to treat my theft as legal, by developing a business model that permits acquisition without payment. A compulsory licenses (ISP tax, etc.) is one example. Lawrence Lessig in his latest book "Remix" spends most of the book suggesting that because infringement is so widespread, we should just "decriminalize" it (his word) and figure out some other way to pay creators. I think I'm on record as not being comfortable with that rights shift. Let me word it more clearly. It’s a procedure as follows: 1) I take your creative work without paying for it. 2) Your only choice is to come up with a way to treat my theft as legal, by developing a business model that permits acquisition without payment. A compulsory licenses (ISP tax, etc.) is one example.

Lawrence Lessig in his latest book “Remix” spends most of the book suggesting that because infringement is so widespread, we should just “decriminalize” it (his word) and figure out some other way to pay creators. I think I’m on record as not being comfortable with that rights shift.

]]> By: John Gordon http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2009/04/live-from-paca-playing-fair/#comment-18199 John Gordon Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:05:10 +0000 http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/?p=413#comment-18199 Isn't "theft through legal means" an oxymoron? If it's legal, it's not theft. Isn’t “theft through legal means” an oxymoron? If it’s legal, it’s not theft.

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