Archive for February 9th, 2007
Never Mine in the First Place
Jonathan Lethem has a fascinating essay in this month’s Harper’s. In “The Ecstasy of Influence” he unpacks the ways culture revisits, reinvents, and remixes in ways that copyright law forbids. Thomas Jefferson, for one, considered copyright a necessary evil: he favored providing just enough incentive to create, nothing more, and thereafter allowing ideas to flow [...]
Posted: 9 February, 2007 in Worth Reading.
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