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Panem et Circenses 2.0...
is fast and furiously streamed. But only from the top.
Make art more accessible to disabled people?
Try DiDIY then!
On copyright being useless because it's recent
I just attended the 2013 Economics and Commons Conference in Berlin. During the Knowledge stream of that event something came up that has bothered me for a long time: the assertion that copyright is useless also because it’s just a few centuries old, and artists were doing just fine even before, thank you very much. Here is what I would have repeated, if there had been more time during those sessions.
I find this particular argument against copyright very, very weak, to say the least, and I’d really like to see it go, for at least three reasons: