IP: Intellectual property: The internet's undoing (Financial Times)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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--
>
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