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Cory Doctorow - State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet

by meyers | January 22, 2007 at 05:35 pm | 2920 views | 1 comment

This past Friday Cory Doctorow gave a great talk at NYU's Courant Institute on technology and copyright. If you ever have an opportunity to see him speak, you should really go - the talk was both entertaining and informative.

The

event [was] co-sponsored by FreeCulture NYU and the NYU Association for Computing Machinery

and open to the public. A lot of great talks coming up this year - Jimy Wales (founder of wikipedia) is giving a talk there the end of January.

Below is a video fo the full talk (~55 min.) that I recorded with his permission. Let me know if you want just the audio posted and i'll add it:

http://blip.tv/file/get/Nowpublic-CoreyDoctorow789.flv

He gave an excellent overview of the last 10 years or so, highlighting how technology and legislation have gone hand in hand... People inevitably find themselves on one side or another based on their background and who they've listened to in the past... In spite of that, Cory did a good job of explaining the changing landscape and how the laws have interacted in ways that no one expected.

fyi, if you don't know him:

Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, and uses some of their more restrictive licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.