[LINK] John Perry Barlow of Grateful Dead at e-G8

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110525/16072814436/john-perry-barlow-tells-copyright-maximalists-that-theyve-got-fundamentals-wrong.shtml

> When Barlow had a chance to speak, he expressed his own surprise at being on the panel, "because I don't think I'm from the same planet, actually." He then proceeded to trash the foundational assumptions of everyone who had just spoken.
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>> I may be one of very few people in this room who actually makes his living personally by creating what these gentlemen are pleased to call "intellectual property." I don't regard my expression as a form of property. Property is something that can be taken from me. If I don't have it, somebody else does. 
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>> Expression is not like that. The notion that expression is like that is entirely a consequence of taking a system of expression and transporting it around, which was necessary before there was the internet, which has the capacity to do this infinitely at almost no cost.
>> He later added the key point, that everyone else who was on the panel weren't creators themselves, but were those who made their living off of creators, stating he wanted to focus on "incentivizing creativity by people who create things, and not large institutions who prey on them and have for years."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/barlow/

> The head of Universal Music France talked about just how much money was necessary to nurture new talent. DIdn't Barlow understand economics?
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> "If you're spending $5 billion on new artists, we're not getting our money's worth," Barlow cracked, and he reframed his argument in economic terms of scarcity and abundance.



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