boingboing.net — Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec wrote him an angry letter, telling him that he wasn't allowed to post that kind of thing to his personal blog, because he works for a university that is funded by the government.
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kero552Jun 15, 2007
It seems that site of the bloger was taken down. <a class="user" href="http://newmusicstrategies.com/">http://newmusicstrategies.com/</a>
misterrikJun 15, 2007
Once you've banned copyright and patent, how exactly are you going to encourage innovation? Follow your argument through and explain to me how people are going to fund research? It is true that the current system doesn't work nearly as well as it should, but if you espouse disbanding it altogether, you are going to need an alternative.
ashishvashishtJun 16, 2007
Sigh... out of edit window... Text only: <a class="user" href="http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/&strip=1">http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/06/14/an-ifpi-bpi-board-member-writes/&strip=1</a>
kurtwinterJun 16, 2007
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ragnerdJun 16, 2007
I think Andrew is one of the guys who gets where music is going. His 20 things ebook is great <a class="user" href="http://newmusicstrategies.com/ebook/.">http://newmusicstrategies.com/ebook/.</a> If you are into what's going on the industry I'd recommend it. His ideas are very similar to the ones that led to creation of my indie music site <a class="user" href="http://soundcrank.com.">http://soundcrank.com.</a>
misterrikJun 18, 2007
I'd never argue otherwise. The people who set about a task with a passion are those we want working on them. But how do you fund research? Developing new drugs isn't something that is often done by someone in their garden shed on a budget of thrupney ha'pence. It costs millions. If I don't have the right to be the only person selling my invention after I've made it for some period of time then how can I raise the money for the research in the first place? I'm not defending the current system. I'm not saying that it isn't hideously flawed. I'm just saying that there needs to be some sort of protection to do what the copyright and patent systems were designed to do in the first place - encourage innovation.