https://walledculture.org/the-book/
"Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of
creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels
are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an
increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers
get locked up.
Walled Culture is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history
of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social,
economic and technological implications.
This book recounts the origins and unfolding of that historic clash of
irreconcilable ideas by diving into how:
* Big Content have lobbied lawmakers in the US, the EU, and elsewhere to pass
harsh laws in an attempt to forbid people from accessing and sharing content;
* As a result, the immense power of the Internet is being throttled, and the
knowledge and culture that could flow freely to everyone is being walled up for
a select few; and,
* We are losing so much just to prop up outdated and inefficient business
models, and what could be done to unleash the Internet’s full potential and
fairly remunerate creators by breaking down those walls.
In looking into these events,
Walled Culture tries to answer the following
key questions:
* What are the problems with copyright in the digital age?
* Why does copyright harm creators and block global access to knowledge?
* How does copyright threaten basic freedoms and undermine the Internet?
* How can we promote creativity and help artists and make a living in the
digital age?
* What should we do to solve all these problems?"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
