James Boyle on Copyright and Openness: you really should watch this if you are in the content business

James Boyle, is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is also the author of the brilliant book "The Public Domain", and in this Google Zeitgeist 2008 video he does a great job explaining why we tend to favor anything but Openness, and why copyright as we know it is turning 1.3 Billion Internet users into perpetual infringers. Watch this video and... think.  More Boyle videos are here btw - all good stuff!

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Comments

[Wells Baum]

Thanks, my thoughts: http://www.bombtune.com/bombtune/2009/07/copyright-versus-copyfight.html