[d@DCC] [Open-wipo] the state of copyright activism (fwd)

[Russell McOrmond]

Interesting article.

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:30:05 +0200
From: Darius Cuplinskas <cuplinsk at osi.hu>
To: open WIPO <open-wipo at venice.essential.org>
Subject: [Open-wipo] the state of copyright activism


The state of copyright activism
by Siva Vaidhyanathan

One of the great hopes I had while I researched and wrote Copyrights and
copywrongs (New York: New York University Press, 2001), a cultural history
of American copyright, during the late 1990s was that copyright debates
might puncture the bubble of public consciousness and become important
global policy questions. My wish has come true. Since 1998 questions about
whether the United States has constructed an equitable or effective
copyright system frequently appear on the pages of daily newspapers.
Activist movements for both stronger and looser copyright systems have grown
in volume and furor. And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in early 2003 that the
foundations of American copyright, as expressed in the Constitution, are
barely relevant in an age in which both media companies and clever consumers
enjoy unprecedented power over the use of works.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Political success, actual failure
Effects on teaching and scholarship
Opposition emerges and organizes
The brilliance of real copyright
Eldred v. Ashcroft
Building a better system
Conclusion

full text at:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/siva/

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