[Free-sklyarov-uk] Press Release - London and Edinburgh Protests 30 August

[Theodore Hong]

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Personally I am in favor of a copyright system which balances the interests
of creators and users of information.  I think there is a difference
between the person converting a CD to mp3 to listen to in the car and the
person sitting in a warehouse pressing thousands of unauthorised disks to
sell on the sidewalk.  Neither the DMCA nor a no-copyright system make a
distinction between the two.

As a practical matter, a successful campaign against EUCD/WIPO will need
the support of the general public, businesses, and authors and artists.  I
believe that the majority of all of these groups would shy away from an
organisation that advocates the abolition of copyright.  I like the
formulation that we want to make sure our existing rights in the physical
world are preserved in the digital arena, which has much wider appeal.

I think a better analogy than renationalising Railtrack would be the
movement to decriminalise marijuana.  While some individual supporters of
the movement might favour broader action to legalise all drugs, the chances
for success are much greater if the issue is kept narrowly focused.

theo

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Theodore Hong         Department of Computing, Imperial College
t.hong at doc.ic.ac.uk   180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~twh1/


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