X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/9af846da7f9648e83a7e89654d18cb466247a1d2..dfabc358e37d3f54d534cb390766c6e5754e53dc:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index b40a2f7..b48f0df 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -2408,7 +2408,7 @@ that time listening to a satellite uplink with a reporter in Iraq. The New York headquarters was telling the reporter over and over that her account of the war was too bleak: She needed to offer a more optimistic story. When she told New York that wasn't warranted, they -told her that they were writing "the story.") +told her that they were writing "the story.") Blog space gives amateurs a way to enter the debate—"amateur" not in the sense of inexperienced, but in the @@ -3401,7 +3401,7 @@ legal wrong, but a locally legal wrong as well. True, these local rules have, in effect, been imposed upon these countries. No country can be part of the world economy and choose - + not to protect copyright internationally. We may have been born a pirate nation, but we will not allow any other nation to have a similar childhood. @@ -3412,20 +3412,22 @@ its laws regardless of their source. The international law under which these nations live gives them some opportunities to escape the burden of intellectual property law. -See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: Who -Owns the Knowledge Economy? (New York: The New Press, 2003), 10–13, -209. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights -(TRIPS) agreement obligates member nations to create administrative -and enforcement mechanisms for intellectual property rights, a costly -proposition for developing countries. Additionally, patent rights may -lead to higher prices for staple industries such as -agriculture. Critics of TRIPS question the disparity between burdens -imposed upon developing countries and benefits conferred to -industrialized nations. TRIPS does permit governments to use patents -for public, noncommercial uses without first obtaining the patent -holder's permission. Developing nations may be able to use this to -gain the benefits of foreign patents at lower prices. This is a -promising strategy for developing nations within the TRIPS framework. +See Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: +Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? (New York: The +New Press, 2003), 10–13, 209. The Trade-Related Aspects of +Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement obligates member +nations to create administrative and enforcement mechanisms for +intellectual property rights, a costly proposition for developing +countries. Additionally, patent rights may lead to higher prices for +staple industries such as agriculture. Critics of TRIPS question the +disparity between burdens imposed upon developing countries and +benefits conferred to industrialized nations. TRIPS does permit +governments to use patents for public, noncommercial uses without +first obtaining the patent holder's permission. Developing nations may +be able to use this to gain the benefits of foreign patents at lower +prices. This is a promising strategy for developing nations within the +TRIPS framework. +agricultural patents Drahos, Peter In my view, more developing nations should take advantage of that opportunity, but when they don't, then their laws @@ -6167,23 +6169,25 @@ is to confuse the stuff of politics with the vagaries of ordinary life. I don't mean to deny the value in this narrower view, which depends upon the context of the inquiry. I do, however, mean to argue against any insistence that this narrower view is the only proper view -of liberty. As I argued in Code, we come from a long tradition of -political thought with a broader focus than the narrow question of -what the government did when. John Stuart Mill defended freedom of -speech, for example, from the tyranny of narrow minds, not from the -fear of government prosecution; John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Indiana: -Hackett Publishing Co., 1978), 19. John R. Commons famously defended -the economic freedom of labor from constraints imposed by the market; -John R. Commons, "The Right to Work," in Malcom Rutherford and Warren -J. Samuels, eds., John R. Commons: Selected Essays (London: +of liberty. As I argued in Code, we come from a +long tradition of political thought with a broader focus than the +narrow question of what the government did when. John Stuart Mill +defended freedom of speech, for example, from the tyranny of narrow +minds, not from the fear of government prosecution; John Stuart Mill, +On Liberty (Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co., +1978), 19. John R. Commons famously defended the economic freedom of +labor from constraints imposed by the market; John R. Commons, "The +Right to Work," in Malcom Rutherford and Warren J. Samuels, eds., +John R. Commons: Selected Essays (London: Routledge: 1997), 62. The Americans with Disabilities Act increases the liberty of people with physical disabilities by changing the architecture of certain public places, thereby making access to those -places easier; 42 United States Code, section 12101 (2000). Each of -these interventions to change existing conditions changes the liberty -of a particular group. The effect of those interventions should be -accounted for in order to understand the effective liberty that each -of these groups might face. +places easier; 42 United States Code, section +12101 (2000). Each of these interventions to change existing +conditions changes the liberty of a particular group. The effect of +those interventions should be accounted for in order to understand the +effective liberty that each of these groups might face. +Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) Commons, John R.