Anyone that knows me knows that the current Intellectual Property laws are near and dear to my heart. I believe that the current implementation is flawed mostly because only a few, highly-positioned interests are really heard when Congress considers this part of the United States Code. There is currently a very interesting discussion going on over at Jaiku about this on a thread started by Quim Gil.
One idea by Starport I found fascinating was that a content creator should have to choose between using Digital Restrictions Management or Copyright law to protect his or her work. This is an interesting idea and would help to protect the commons as a work transfers from copyright protections to the public domain.
I do not believe Quim meant for the discussion to take shape the way it has, but that is the fascinating thing about social media on the Internet, and an example of how threaded discussions on Jaiku are superior to the limited commentary you can get on Facebook or the shouting back and forth on Twitter.
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