KNOWLEDGE IS RELEVANT
I DO NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, BUT I'LL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT. VOLTAIRE
Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media
Language technology
Exodus 20:14
Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the consent of the authors... to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: For preventing therefore such practices for the future, and for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books
Expanding rights
entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form
Whats protected?
Almost everything!
VERKSHJD
idea/expression dichotomy
GENERATION ZERO
HOLLERITH
INTERFACES OF KNOWLEDGE
Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything thats invented between when youre fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after youre thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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digitalization
Analog / Digital
Copy inferior Limited nr of copies Copying in real time Cost There is no copy Infinite nr Timeless Without cost
STALLMAN PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT ECONOMIC RETURNS WERE NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION
Google 1999
Blogger 1999
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