Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight
Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What’s at stake?
Everything.
Until a very short time ago, copyright was an industrial regulation. If you fell under copyright’s domain, it meant that you were using a piece of extraordinary industrial apparatus–a printing press, a motion picture camera, a record press. The cost of this apparatus was significant, so adding a couple hundred bucks for the services of a skilled copyright attorney to the deal wasn’t much of a hardship. It merely tacked a couple percentage points of overhead onto the cost of doing business.
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