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IP: Intellectual property: The internet's undoing (Financial Times)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:56:56 -0500
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Intellectual property: The internet's undoing Commercial control and tighter protection of intellectual property will end up stifling innovation, warns Lawrence Lessig The Financial Times Published: November 28 2001 20:23 | Last Updated: November 28 2001 21:35 The internet revolution has fizzledout just as surprisingly as it began. Noone foresaw the explosion of innovation that it produced; no one guessed it would end as precipitously as it did. Yet neither the rise nor the fall of the net is hard to understand if you know where to look. Its source is in the ecology produced by the network's basic design. The innovation of the internet flowed from the network's architecture - and the demise of that innovation flows from the corruption of the environment created by that architecture. Network "architecture" is not the usual place where policy is found, so policymakers can be excused if they have failed to notice its role so far. But we shall lose a great opportunity for growth and creativity if we do not come to understand the ecology of this network and how changes to this ecology lessen its potential. --SNIP-- http://tm0.com/sbct.cgi?s=125256324&i=425482&d=2071467 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- geoff.goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
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