Information wants to be free?
Sep. 9th, 2007 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyThat's one of the slogans of the extremist fringe of the "Intellectual Property" debate. I suspect for a lot of them, that is "free" as in "I don't have to pay for it" rather than "free" as in "The cops can't haul it off to Gitmo."
Problem is, when you apply that theory to works of fiction, to music, to performances of any kind, you are dealing with just that -- performances. I don't write "information." I write "entertainment."
"Creativity wants to be paid."
This editorial brought to you by one cup of coffee. That's what free information will get you, if you add a couple of dollars* on your own...
*Used to be a quarter, but $tarbucks happened.
Problem is, when you apply that theory to works of fiction, to music, to performances of any kind, you are dealing with just that -- performances. I don't write "information." I write "entertainment."
"Creativity wants to be paid."
This editorial brought to you by one cup of coffee. That's what free information will get you, if you add a couple of dollars* on your own...
*Used to be a quarter, but $tarbucks happened.
