Digital Copyright paper
Well hi all. I should be sleeping right now, but instead I'm up reading my NY brother's blogs. Don't you just love the USPS? Anyhoo, I have a 30-page paper I'm working on for my Digital Copyright Seminar class. It's due April 25th, so of course, I just started writing it. I did, however, begin researching over a week ago... The gist of it is that copyright has been transformed into a monopoly and therefore our next generation will have fewer capabilities of creating new innovations and technology... We have moved back into the mid-1700s when publishers wanted perpetual copyrights, only now it applies to EVERYTHING and not just books. Scary...
I have two pages done so far (almost 10%!) and my goal is to finish in two weeks so that I have time to rewrite it. I would eventually like to publish it so I get help getting into a good school for my LLM.. good goal, eh? The subject matter is interesting, but sometimes it's hard to put my thoughts into words.
I've been reading Lawrence Lessig's books and blogs, cases, amicus briefs from Grokster, and much more. Does anyone have any further suggestions, ideas, or quotes for me?
As the paper progresses, I'll keep you (whoever is a geek like me) updated. :D
NOTE-
Here's some great sites you should check out and promote (forgive me for not making them links; I have yet to figure out how to do that neat trick)...
http://legacy.randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html
http://www.lessig.org/blog
http://eldred.cc/
http://www.eff.org
http://outragedmoderates.org/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/view.html?pg5