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Goetz on the Future of Copyright
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posted by mpawlo
on Wednesday January 28, @07:05AM
from the misguided-efforts dept.
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In his latest Wired column, Thomas Goetz makes the claim that while 'America works to protect intellectual property, everyone else is innovating'. Goetz compares intellectual property business with the shipping industry's subsidies and states:
'The US is in danger of repeating the mistake, this time with intellectual property. In the face of new technologies and competition, the US is toughening patent and copyright protections. It's leaning on other countries - and its own citizens - to play by ever tighter rules. But if it's not careful, the US will drive its intellectual property offshore into a shadow world that, like shipping, is replete with piracy and rogue states.'
The major difference is of course that this is an international movement and not a U.S.-centric one. When Goetz states that the U.S. shall 'instead use the WIPO to forge a global policy that works for all nations' this has already been done through WIPO's Copyright Treaty and WIPO's Performances and Phonograms Treaty. We will adopt more or less the same rules in every Western society. Already, we have Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society and we have the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the U.S. What more global policy can you crave? It may be the road to copyright hell, but at least we are all travelling on it together and when travelling in bad times, why not bring nice companions? I do not know if we can bring the ring of copyright to the Mount Doom. And where is Frodo when we need him the most?
Read more in Wired.
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