right to take back a popular book or song or movie or illustration after 14 years (as was the case in the original US copyright system), and resell it for more money as a risk-free, proven success.”
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/12/pasticcio-2/
I agree with Doctorow @pluralistic and #RSS was invented by the late genius Aaron Swartz
A must watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc
#RSS #copyright #copywrong
#AaronSwartz#Reddit#TheInternetsOwnBoy
Academia has a collective action problem.
"Instead, they all hold one another hostage, through a wicked collective action problem that holds back science, starves their institutions of funding, and puts their colleagues at risk of imprisonment."
Glad this was covered by @pluralistic
#academia #publishing #publishorperish #copyright
@academicchatter @academicsunite
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
Once you learn about the "collective action problem," you start seeing it everywhere. Democrats - including elected officials - all wanted Biden to step down, but none of them wanted to be the first one to take a firm stand, so for months, his campaign limped on: a collective action problem.
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@pluralistic For those who like academic treatments, Mancur Olson developed the economic theory of collective action in the 1960s, with an essay and later book, "The Logic of Collective Action":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Book at the Internet Archive / Open Library: https://archive.org/details/logicofcollectiv00olso
Who of course are fighting their own collective action battle against copyright absolutists:
https://blog.archive.org/tag/controlled-digital-lending/
#MancurOlson#CollectiveAction#InternetArchive#CDL #ControlledDigitalLending#Copyright#CopyrightAbsolutists
The federal government is holding an inquiry into the state of the Australian music industry, with musicians from around the country giving evidence about its struggle to survive. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-10/the-fight-happening-backstage-of-the-australian-music-industry/104190534 #auspol #music #copyright #auslaw #performers
Quote of the day, from Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic):
"The same thinking that causes progressives to recklessly argue in favor of upload filters also causes them to demand that web scraping be treated as a copyright crime. They think they're creating a world where AI companies can't rip off their creation to train a model; they're actually creating world where the Internet Archive can't capture JD Vance's embarrassing old podcast appearances...."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law