The Legal System Doesn't Work. Or More

I'm A Lawyer. I Make Lawyers For A Living.

We Are A Cut-and-paste Culture. The Aim Of The Protectionists Is To Argue That A Cut-and-paste Culture Is Criminal. Well, It's Only Criminal If There's Nothing Out There That You Can Freely Cut And Paste. If We Increasingly Mark Material As Available For These Non-commercial Uses, Then People Will Have The Opportunity To See Its Importance.

We Live In A World With "free" Content, And This Freedom Is Not An Imperfection. We Listen To The Radio Without Paying For The Songs We Hear; We Hear Friends Humming Tunes That They Have Not Licensed. We Tell Jokes That Reference Movie Plots Without The Permission Of The Directors. We Read Our Children Books, Borrowed From A Library, Without Paying The Original Copyright Holder For The Performance Rights.

I Think If The Copyright Regime Focuses On The People We Are Supposed To Be Helping, The Artists And Creators, And Builds A System That Gives Them The Freedom To Choose And To Protect And To Be Rewarded For Their Creativity, Then We Will Have The Right Focus.

Technology Means You Can Now Do Amazing Things Easily; But You Couldn't Easily Do Them Legally.