Follow Up on Ch. 6

An article on Slate about the less than up to date laws...


Actually, it's a series and this article is on point too. I think Lessig (quoted in the article) is the law professor quoted in Wikinomics also.

Tolerated Use: The Copyright Problem

In case you don't feel like reading the whole article, this quote sums it up:

"The formal result of that is what we have today: a copyright law that covers almost everything we do in the digital world.

But the paradox is that the current law is so expansive and extreme that the very firms that first sought it cannot even make use of it. Nor would they want to. In a well-functioning political system, the copyright law might be reformed in a grand negotiation between all interested parties, with the long-term goal of separating out the harmful infringement from the harmless. But in 21^st-century America, that's not a result our political system is capable of reaching."