I wrote a piece a few days ago about Amazon, the Kindle, and the line between copyright and ownership. I’d like to follow that up with a few observations about the problem of digital encryption (also known as DRM—Digital Rights Management, better called Digital Restriction Management) on your property. The difficulty is that copyright law doesn’t really allow artists to… Read more →
Tag: Copyright
A Bit More on Copyright, Fair Use and the Digital Age
For those wanting to dig a little deeper into the ethics of copyright and fair use, I must highly recommend these two articles by theologians John M. Frame and Vern S. Poythress, on the theological and philosophical underpinnings of such laws. These articles are dated (to the era when photocopying was beginning to come into the fore!), but many of… Read more →
Why File Sharing Increases Sales
The common belief is that online file-sharing harms the sale of the product and is the same as stealing a book or CD. Well, there are reasons to think this really isn’t exactly the case. Here’s Neil Gaiman chatting about how online piracy actually boosts an author’s profile and his sales. His most shocking comparison is to online file sharing… Read more →