Friday 9 November 2007
Technology — the PC and the Internet — has moved our social lives from the street to cyberspace. In “meatspace,” our conversations, interactions, and chin-jawing maunderings tend not to be “fixed” — they’re not recorded or written down. No one owns them. If I quote something you said to me over breakfast while I’m at lunch, there’s no copyright violation. But if I copy something you posted to your blog and put it into my blog, I potentially violate your exclusive rights to control copying, adaptation, display and performance of your “work. Cory Doctorow ☀
