Little people, big lawsuits
October 22nd, 2009 by Ron Coleman | Print
Originally posted 2008-01-10 11:18:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The Washington Post reports on legal action taken by ordinary folk against Big IP Content Generating institutions for lifting and using “user-generated” content, i.e., pictures and stuff uploaded onto blogs and galleries by regular people. The corporations are doing this, evidently, in the quest for authentic authenticity. There will be spanking.
This is an odd quote, though, from Lawrence Lessig:
What’s noteworthy in each of these cases, Lessig says, “is that bloggers, a community typically associated with piracy, are rallying in support of copyright.”
Is that a fair “association”? Hat tip to erstwhile blogger “Penny Wit.”
January 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Is that a fair “association”? Hat tip to erstwhile blogger “Penny Wit.”
I’m not sure it is a fair association. I mean, that a blogger — even an erstwhile blogger — would copy something wholesale without adding any value …
–|PW|–
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:01 am
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