On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Carlo Traverso wrote:
I think that we have to revise the aim and implementation of copyright.
Copyright has useful features (allowing writer to make a living) and bad features (its implementation being giving a long-term monopoly to publishers, all the disadvantages of monopoly appear).
Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review says: "Copyright is the essence of intellectual creation. . . ." Of course, he neglects to take into account how many of the great works were created before copyright or by those who were against copyright, such as Milton. Not only were the greatest writers before copyright, such as Shakespeare and Dante, it is quite likely that they couldn't have published what they did under current copyright laws.