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JP Barlow:
'Even copyright lawyers wouldn't find it advantageous to copyright their briefs, since they rip one another off so flagrantly. Copy and paste is second only to paranoia in being is the best thing that ever happened to the legal profession.'
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aww, I don't think it means he doesn't like them necessarily. Probably more of an ascerbic observation...Cut-n-paste is *fast*! One can litigate and generate motions much more prodigiously/prolifically since the deployment of microelectronic technology.
Unsurprisingly, this has overwhelmed the system. And, led to George H.W. Bush to call for Tort Reform, which is really not the way to go,imho, since it sidesteps the issue of "Equal Justice under Law." And leads to the syndrome my Father observed: "In this country, You get only as much Justice as You can afford."
Tort Reform as Bush the Elder put forth would only serve to exclude the bulk of the People from access to the system of jurisprudence for legitimate redress of harm done them. I think what Barlow is saying is that rather than serve to protect the intellectual property of a Producer, copyright law has been used as a weapon against both those Producers (i.e. "work for hire" record deals for example - which example applies to any number of other industries since the early 1980's as far as I can recall); and as an monopolistic tactic by those record companies, movie studios, and book publishing houses that hold copyrights on items for which there is significant market demand, yet sit on them and withhold them from the market...and *renew* them so they can continue to manipulate the market in this way.
Law is about the meanings of words, ultimately, the way the system functions. And the language has been perverted to screw the Artists and Producers of value.
That's some of what I think he's saying, in that article, fwiw.
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