Re: [AMIA-L] A call to differentiate commercial from cultural and personal copyright

["Fulton, John" <John.Fulton@xxxxxxxx>]

My reading of Doctorow's piece is that the group who is making new proposals for copyright behavior, WIPO, is doing it for "archivists, educators and people who provide access to disabled users of information." He is saying that disabled rights groups are part of the WIPO drafting group and have an interest in new access standards.

 

John Fulton

Minnesota Historical Society

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I'm confused as to why the disabled are dragged into this?

And his point about lil' Timmy copying the Marvel comics--for profit--doesn't jive with innocents posting videos on YouTube.

kate Coe

On Jan 29, 2008 8:29 AM, Rick Prelinger <footage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/29/copyright.law

Cory Doctorow's latest is well worth a read.  I imagine many will disagree.  If you believe that a robust culture requires the protection of popular and "folk" _expression_, though, you may sympathize.

Rick


Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Library & Archives, San Francisco
Board President, Internet Archive

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