Comments on: Sharecropping at the Washington Post http://www.lessig.org/2006/08/sharecropping-at-the-washingto/ Blog, news, books Mon, 20 May 2013 04:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: d.504 http://www.lessig.org/2006/08/sharecropping-at-the-washingto/#comment-16556 d.504 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:45:33 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2006/08/sharecropping_at_the_washingto.html#comment-16556 there is a group on myspace title sharecropping,and also when you look up the word you will find out that it is not a all black/white thang it was labor…..

]]> By: poptones http://www.lessig.org/2006/08/sharecropping-at-the-washingto/#comment-16555 poptones Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:32:56 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2006/08/sharecropping_at_the_washingto.html#comment-16555 Amen, brother.

But owning rights is only part of it – without the ready ability to profit from those rights they only mean a matter of pride. And without an econimically lucid system of collaborating and policing those rights, what’s the use?

Look at the license for CODe, for example. Yes, it’s great and I am not trivializing in any way the contributions brought forth from allowing sharing on non-profit basis these works. But what if it were so much easier for me to sell my own version of your book? The DMCA makes it pretty easy for you or anyone to stop me, but does nothing at all, aside from puntitive measures, to encourage such collaborations.

At least by assigning rights to the Times, these works enjoy some protection… alas, just like all those other sharecroppers living inside the walls, forced to turn to the massahs for protection because it’s all but impossible to go it alone…

When, oh when, will the commons community be ready to get on with the business of participating on the development of a peer to peer rights management scheme?

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