Here’s the people who’ll make the real change: IPac, the Intellectual Property PAC.

Tim

And just about as likely. Proposals by academicians are most frequently blather of vanity. The people who make the real change will be doing post-Napster file sharing that will be effective and probably undetectable.

The old order crumbleth before the ingenuity of the “hackers for a creative commons”.

fuck a bunch of copyrights. We’re all in this together.

Love.

impending extinction?

perhaps, but fisher’s apparent suggestion that the dinosaurs should be replaced by two-legged government bureaucrats doesn’t sound like evolution to us.

it sounds like getting hit by a second, larger, and more devastating, meteor.

It’s all out war and the RIAA and their ilk need to suffer.

The argument needs to be defined as Lessig being the moderate and the RIAA as being the radicals. That is accomplished by giving a louder voice to the consumers.

P2P networking is more like radio than record distribution.

Many people and organizations would have to cooperate in order to implement any one of those proposals. The intensifying strife during the past dozen years between consumers, record and movie companies, technology manufacturers, and artists might suggest that such cooperation is unlikely. One characteristic shared by all three models, however, provides the basis for optimism. Under each one, almost everyone would fare better than under the current regime. If the representatives of each group of players could come to see that regimes beneficial to all parties are imaginable and feasible, we could work collectively to transform the world of recorded entertainment.

If all that was possible, we wouldn’t be where we are. As far as we’re concerned, the entertainment industry has a monopoly on power & fully excercizes it. What we need is not more “good ideas” that’ll only be ignored by those in power. What’s needed is better ways to organize ourselves so we can have more of a voice in the corridors & backrooms of power. Self organization, smart mobs, wise crowds, emergent democracy, network effects, transparent society, open source intelligence, whatever you want to call it – this is where our effort needs to be directed. Once we have the possibility of effecting change & not just shouting into the wind, then we can start to think about what changes we want to make. Until then it’s pretty much wasted effort.

Tim