tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211124011597531355.post7443399578445097843..comments2023-11-05T03:23:23.094-08:00Comments on CUA-ASIS&T: Impress Your Professor...Copyright IssuesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211124011597531355.post-91736016357928527982009-05-13T03:01:00.000-07:002009-05-13T03:01:00.000-07:00Sorry for such a late comment on this, was doing a...Sorry for such a late comment on this, was doing a little backreading of the blog this morning! <br /><br />I think this perfectly illustrates how completely backward our copyright laws are worldwide in light of new technologies. As copyright infringement cases become more laughable the laws will eventually get tighter as they try to cover just about every permutation of information and eventually the whole system will simply break wide open. <br /><br />Digital technology is making current copyright law obsolete, and new attempts to enforce this imaginary idea of ownership even scarier, see Rasmus Fleicher's article: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/.<br /><br />I really love this article on the topic. It's a nice philosophical overview of how the relatively new concept that an artist can claim ownership of an idea ever came to be: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/nimustext.htmlNora Dalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617858166844415578noreply@blogger.com