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Re: copyright as real estate
Maybe it's an approximate metaphor Aaron. Not perfect. Not multi-faceted. Just a feeling, not a formula. Now it is property if you believe my brain is part of the source of my program, which I do. You can't have my brain Aaron. But if you spend two or three years apprenticing with me, I can teach you how to work on my program. It's hard work. You might not like me after it's over. But you would be able to work on it. (Most people don't make it through the two-three years, btw.) That's what so disingenous about Lessig's argument. He thinks he's getting the source when I give him a floppy disk with a bunch of .c and .h files on it. Hah. Okay, maybe he can compile it. But what happens when he changes something and the whole thing doesn't work. Does he *understand* it. He probably doesn't know that such a thing is necessary to work on it. A famous VC who was on the board of Symantec once asked for the source to MORE. He had some spare time on the weekend and wanted to add a feature. I said give it to him. There are responses to this message:
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