Doc Searls, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Fee Culture vs. Free Culture

August 18, 2009 at 12:02 am PT

Allan Gregory (a 3rd year law student and my summer intern at the Berkman Center) and I have spent a lot of time this summer looking at the history of copyright and royalties, mostly in respect to music. What I’ve noticed in the course of this work is how much commercial interests of one kind or another (and in some cases we’re talking about a single party with a legitimate beef who had been screwed over one too many times–Victor Herbert, for example) push law and enforcement across new lines that quickly harden.

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