On the topic of copyright law, theres a great book out recently called
copyrights and copywrongs by siva vaidhyanathan, i think thats how his name
goes. but anyways, his thesis is basically that the scope of copyright has
over time become so corporatized that it now damnedly outstretches its
limited monopoly reach and is now diminishing the worlds civic culture.
if anyone is interested to read up, especially any lawyers, im attaching a
doc of a research project i created for an entertainment law class at
ucberkeley. i never ran this thesis across a lawyer, but im curious: if the
policy behind copyright is engraved in the constitutions as the decree that
congress has the power to create limited monopolies "to promote the progress
of the arts," how does it work that, for example, digital sampling as
infringement is used as a deterrent to would be producers when everyone is
using sampling to some degree? how is this preserving the progress of the
art?
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