Cory Doctorow On Dancing Toddlers, Fan-Fic, and Cultural Copyright
Cory Doctorow, relentless champion of no stinkin’ copyrights, has a piece in The Guardian (UK) that starts off with a fatal flaw, right from the jump:
In theory, there’s just one set of copyright rules and they apply to everyone, from Sony Pictures to your neighbour’s eight-year-old who wants to photocopy his Spider-Man comics and sell them to the other kids.
What kid does this? Who’s dumb enough to buy some crappy copy of a comic?
Doctorow goes on about how the internet has made “folk-users” bolder in their appropriation of the creative works of others, with horrible repercussions.
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