JoHo has a great post about copyright:
Culture does not exist simply to enlighten us.
Culture’s far more common role is to give us something to talk about.
If we have nothing to talk about, nations divide over unreasonable differences, communities reduce to parking regulations, and marriages end in dinnertime squabbles.
To talk about things in a depth that binds requires freely accessing, citing, quoting, pointing, and linking.
Therefore, for the sake of our nation, communities, and marriages, we need to loosen copyright’s hold.
QED
I love the idea of opening up conversations, although I don’t tend to take it to the end of ending conflict. I think I’m more prone to just assume that happens when people talk, without ever realizing I was thinking that.
Interesting things to think about it, especially in light of marriage equality coming to New York last night, with the last line about marriages.
