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William Patry Copyright Blog
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rjack |
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William Patry Copyright Blog |
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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:52:02 -0400 |
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Note: Professor William Patry published *Patry on Copyright* - a seven-volume
treatise on copyright law.
William Patry Copyright blog (8/3/2008):
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/
[begin quote]
I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4
years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanation. There are two
reasons...
2. The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing...
Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the
creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve
existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and
technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from
activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright
owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put
back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and
quite deliberately.
[end quote]
Sincerely,
Rjack
- William Patry Copyright Blog,
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