January 31, 2006

Patents, Copyright, DRM vs. Evolution

What’s so fundamentally wrong with bogus patents, trivial patents, software patents, copyright term extensions, limiting interpretations of copyright, digital restrictions management and digital copy-protection laws (among other things)?

A lot. It limits the evolution of human culture. Lawrence Lessig has explained how and why, several times, in his presentation ‘free culture’.

Watch it here (Flash needed):







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