[LINK] Copyright documentary on ABC radio

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/02/copyright-documentar.html
> a 48-minute radio documentary for the Australian public broadcaster,  
> the ABC, about remix culture, piracy and copyright.

> I've just gotten as far as the woman from the Australian film  
> industry explaining that even though sales of DVD and box-office  
> tickets are up, copyright infringement is still a deadly threat to  
> the movie industry, demanding that the Internet be totally remade to  
> prevent it, just in case. Nice stuff.


Radio documentary here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2726710.htm
Download here:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2009/11/bbg_20091101.mp3

Video Documentary on copyright and culture here:
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/
> Good Copy, Bad Copy, a stunning Danish documentary on remix culture  
> and copyright, available as a free download. The film skips around  
> the world, showing the changing attitudes toward art and culture in  
> Nigeria, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, and the US, answering statements  
> about incentives and creativity by the MPAA and IFPI by showing us  
> real artists (like Danger Mouse and Girl Talk) making wonderful art  
> that, according to the gangsters in the entertainment industry, no  
> one will make without copyright.


http://www.oneclicheatatime.com/2009/11/lessig-on-climate-change/
Lessig on climate change:

> We have IP – copyright and patent, to deal with what economists call  
> the problem of positive externalities, meaning I do something which  
> creates a benefit to you, without you and I necessarily having any  
> kind of agreement about that.  So we solve that problem by having  
> monopolies granted by the state to what the economists call  
> ‘internalise’ the positive externalities, so I get all the benefit  
> and I create lots of good.
>
> But as well as positive externalities, there are also negative  
> externalities, so I run a coal-fired power plant, I produce carbon,  
> I produce mercury into the atmosphere, these are all negative harms  
> which I impose on my neighbours without necessarily compensating  
> them for that.  And the government has a role there too in  
> internalising negative externalities.  Global warming is a classic  
> example of a negative externality, and the government has in my view  
> an essential role in making sure that that negative externality is  
> internalised, just like if works so hard to make sure that positive  
> externalities are internalised.
>
...

> In the last 20 years, there have been 15 bills passed to deal with  
> copyright, and internalising the positive externalities.  Not one  
> bill to deal with the problem of global warming.  Now that’s just  
> completely skewed priorities, right.  If anything we should be  
> worried about the negative externalities first, and then get around  
> to the positive ones, but not before we’ve dealt with the most  
> critical negative externalities like global warming.




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