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Worldcon: The Intellectual Property Panel. No, Wait, Seriously!

By Lev Grossman | @leverus | August 7, 2009 | +

I’m just going to blog when and where I can while I’m in Montreal. Hit targets of opportunity and hit’em hard. Like back when I was in the space rangers.

I just got out of a really interesting panel on intellectual property, featuring Cory Doctorow and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, among others. First they explained how copyright law is so antiquated that when you hit reply on an e-mail, and it automatically quotes the text of the original, you’re technically violating copyright.

Then they talked about what Creative Commons is and how DRM is useless. I kept waiting for the party where Doctorow hugs me and tells me my industry isn’t dying. Maybe he just ran out of time.

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  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    Cory told me he was going to do just that, but when I mentioned you hadn’t seen BSG he just got this disgusted look on his face…

  • dennitzio

    It seems to me that authors shouldn’t be de-monetizing creativity simply because it’s inconvenient (in the convenience vs. security sense) to manage it through modern technology.

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    OT, but holy crap is the loading of these pages annoying. They bounce up and down like a debutante after the ball.

    Lev, get the webmonkeys on that, will you?

  • dennitzio

    Hear, hear! Drives me freakin’ nuts. I’m ready to switch to Firefox only for this blog and adblock the hell out of it. I already have a Time subscription that shows up a day or two late every week. You hear me, Time? No ad revenue from me!

  • Kemper

    “Like back when I was in the space rangers.”

    Space rangers? Seriously, you should have gone with, “Like back when I was a Colonial Viper pilot.”

  • anon76

    I third the motion! Especially the Kohl’s ads, which, once their finished loading, cover half of the banner space, can’t be closed, and prevent me from using the “Next” feature to flip through blog posts. Kohl’s will never get my business as long as this is their advertisement model.

  • http://www.simonvinkenoog.nl/beeld/Yogi%20-%20Annelies%20Rigter.jpg yogi

    Agreed very annoying, but somehow I think we’re barking up the wrong TIME blogger tree. I knew those BSG comments would come back and bit us in the @ss!

  • dennitzio

    Now they’re really screwing with us – the window is jumping to the BOTTOM instead.

    Oh, and I blame you BSGalacticians. Pretty soon Lev’s going to turn off comments altogether.

  • Kemper

    That’s just crazy talk, dennitzio. We add significantly to the blogs comment count. Besides, he wouldn’t shut down the comments. He’d just ban the biggest pains in the

  • dennitzio

    Oh, lord… I didn’t think of that… If he banned all the BSG commenters it’d just be me and hordes of teenage vampire romance fans Time would force Lev to pander to…

    *shudder*

  • tereglith

    @dennitzio

    I’d be there too, but my commenting is kind of sporadic. So you would be mostly all alone with them.

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