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Georgia Harper

Market opportunity knocks, and knocks, and knocks

Posted in business models, creative commons, orphan works | No Comments

Copyright owners probably thought they got off to a good start legislatively: they took bold steps 10 years ago to strengthen their rights, fearing an erosion of control in the digital environment. Unfortunately, they designed their two major pieces of legislation, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, to [...]

Georgia Harper

Mass Digitization: Introduction

Posted in Congressional paralysis, DRM, Google v, business models, creative commons, fair use, irrelevance of law, orphan works | No Comments

Last [summer, June, 2007], at the International Creative Commons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence Lessig made a stunning announcement: he is going to retire from copyfighting and take up a new career, fighting for a new issue. He's going to stay involved with Creative Commons as its CEO, but from now on, he's working to [...]