Copyright v. The Free Market
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) invited me to give their lunchtime seminar yesterday. The audience was mostly students, and my host requested a copyright-oriented talk, having recently overloaded the crowd with patent speakers. I chose the title: Copyright v. The Free Market: A Clash of Titans. (Hey, the invitation came on Tuesday for a Thursday talk--cut me a little slack).
I promised to make my slides available. Feel free to use them subject to the following conditions:
1. You attribute Bruce Abramson as the author.
2. You direct listeners/viewers to www.theinformationist.com, where they can get their own set and see my other musings.
3. You let listeners/viewers know that I discuss these issues further in both Digital Phoenix and The Secret Circuit.
Note that my name and the website appear on every slide, and the book information appears on the last slide. Simply incorporating my last slide and leaving my footer information untouched will satisfy these minimal requirements.
For those who see some irony in my placing conditions on distribution of a talk that takes a sanguine view of copyright law, I can only say three things:
1. Removing my name and claiming independent authorship constitutes plagiarism--an issue entirely independent of copyright law.
2. None of my conditions interfere with market conditions.
And most of all. . .
3. A little bit of common courtesy never hurt anyone. People who like my presentations might also like my books.
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