Copyrights Have Not Expired, And Will Not

[congress] And Their Cronies Secure More Than One Hundred Billion Dollars In Corporate Welfare

The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark In Its Center. There Are Some Fundamental Choices To Be Made. We Will Either Choose To Continue To Wage A Hopeless War To Preserve The Existing Architecture For Copyright By Upping The Stakes And Using Better Weapons To Make Sure That People Respect It. If We Do This, Public Support For Copyright Will Continue To Weaken, Pushing Creativity Underground And Producing A Generation That Is Alienated From The Copyright Concept.

So Uncritically Do We Accept The Idea Of Property In Ideas That We Don't Even Notice How Monstrous It Is To Deny Ideas To A People Who Are Dying Without Them.

I Don't Care If The Koch Brothers Or Soros Spend Their Money To Promote One Candidate Or Another. I Care About Members Of Congress Spending 30%-70% Of Their Time Raising Money From .05% Of Us. Change The Way We Fund Elections And You Change The Corruption.

A Free Culture Supports And Protects Creators And Innovators. It Does This Directly By Granting Intellectual Property Rights. But It Does So Indirectly By Limiting The Reach Of Those Rights, To Guarantee That Follow-on Creators And Innovators Remain As Free As Possible From The Control Of The Past. A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property, Just As A Free Market Is Not A Market In Which Everything Is Free. The Opposite Of A Free Culture Is A "permission Culture" -- A Culture In Which Creators Get To Create Only With The Permission Of The Powerful, Or Of Creators From The Past.