Joe Clark, “Who opposes ‘The Cranky Copyright Book’?” (via nickdouglas)There’s exactly one countervailing position, though it consists of several ideas bundled together and filed under the neologism “copyleft.” You know what these ideas are. You probably also know there are exactly three people authorized to articulate these ideas:
1. Larry Lessig (U.S.)
2. Michael Geist (Canada)
3. Cory Doctorow (transnational Canadian in England)Nobody died and made these guys king. It’s just a power-law effect. But the fact remains these are the only public spokesmen for copyright reform. If all those guys are on a jet plane en route to a conference or something and are somehow unreachable by E-mail, you could maybe ask the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Doctorow’s former employer) for a quote.
Aaand that’s it. That’s the copyright debate. You’ve got a bunch of assumed corporate apologists, whose names you barely know (“Um… Jack Valenti?”), on one side. On the other are the three star spokesmen of the movement. (And please, it is a movement.)
