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Re: Lessig in Three Seconds or Less contest update..
For the contest: Buddy can you spare a work for the public domain? For the Debate: For the private software sector to profit in the digital age a basic requirement is registration of the original work, which will require a rollback of the copyright law. Registration in today's world is less of a challenge than it has been any time in history. Yep, you can email the stuff. In exchange for that profit, when do you decide that it can become part of the heritage of the society that has given you the ability to create and profit in the first place? !0 Years is more than enough. For those who need to protect their software property, current copyright is probably not the best solution. Copyright as a system of protection has been legislated out of any sort of utility as creation of software and it's existance is it's imprimatur of legitimacy. There has not been a requirement for a central repository such as the copyright office for a number of years. Not having a requirement for registration has the government repudiating the deal that was made for the protection of creators as well as the expansion of the public domain. This along with recent legislation extending the length of copyright as well as the darker spectre of digital imperialism by copyright 'holders' to favor distributors over the creators makes copyright just another issue for litigation rather than a celebration of creativity. And the Entertainment Distribution Industries have been driving large trucks in that hole alone.
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