Insightfull article on copyright

[TetsuoShima]

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars

 

If copyrights are a form of property right, then the history of American property rights provides clues about how the copyright system will need to evolve in the future. It suggests that Congress's current strategy of imposing ever more draconian penalties for breaking laws that lack broad public support is a recipe for failure. Congress may be forced to concede, as it did two centuries ago, that property law must accommodate the actions of ordinary Americans, and not the other way around.

 

Some interesting aspects on similarities between property rights and copyrights. Nothing spectacularly new in terms of arguments, but it's still worth a read. :)

[USWhoFan]

Very interesting article and definitely worth the time to read it.

 

I will most assuredly share this with my friends at the EFF.