[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Kevin,

to make sure I'm not understood, what I'm advocating is not IP repression,
but to have the ability to have systems that people could subscribe to (for
the U.S. for example), and the income would go to the artists; or
alternatively the european way, a very modest tax (think tobin tax), could
be levied on digital players, and the income would again go to the artists.
In the latter case, music could be totally free.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/3/10, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wikipedia
> > should always be allowed to be compelling with its own model.  I see no
> > justification for anyone blocking free and open.  I also see no reason
> for
> > people to be punished for not choosing free and open.  If Wikipedia is
> not
> > chosen as compelling, it ought not to exist.  By all means, let's have a
> > level playing field.  But IP is part of a level playing field.
>
> I agree that people should not be punished for not choosing free and
> open.  Anyone who wants to post a copyright notice on his work should
> be free to do so, and anyone who voluntarily refrains from reproducing
> it out of respect for the creator's proprietary claims should also be
> free to do so.  What the creator should NOT be able to do is punish,
> or use the state to punish, anyone who does NOT voluntarily refrain
> from reproducing the content.   That is not part of a level playing
> field.
>
> I think  my view of IP is a mirror image of your view of free open.  I
> see no reason for blocking the voluntary claim of copyright or the
> recognition of that claim on a purely voluntary basis.  But I also see
> no reason for people to be punished for not choosing to recognize or
> obey copyright claims.
>
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