Comments on: Proposal For A New Model Giving Rights To Online Sharing Of Content http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/02/09/proposal-for-a-new-model-giving-rights-to-online-sharing-of-content/ Original news and analysis on international IP policy Fri, 24 May 2013 16:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Marion Gropen http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/02/09/proposal-for-a-new-model-giving-rights-to-online-sharing-of-content/comment-page-1/#comment-4921038 Marion Gropen Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:43:16 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=19407#comment-4921038 Ah, yes, the academics in full cry. Impractical, and completely oblivious to the fact that their solution will ensure that those authors who currently make a living from their pen won’t be able to do so under the new regime, much less the hundreds of thousands of small publishers, and the fewer folks employed by the tiny number of big publishers.

It will however, provide a lot of work for out of work clerks and accountants, who could be called creative, I suppose.

And it will certainly ensure that all of the bestsellers that might have taken up all of the readers’ time won’t be there, so all the “under-appreciated great” writers will get their time in the sun.

]]> By: Jason Barnes http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/02/09/proposal-for-a-new-model-giving-rights-to-online-sharing-of-content/comment-page-1/#comment-4920814 Jason Barnes Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:24:28 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=19407#comment-4920814 Just another advocate of piracy. The only difference between this thief and other pirates is that this one disguises his advocacy of theft with fancy words, and conceals his true message in a cloud of double-talk.

What he actually claims is that there is now a license to steal.

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