Comments on: Captain Copyright shot down http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9618 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9618/comment-page-1#comment-115950 Reader's Write Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:44:14 +0000 #comment-115950 Unless Access Copyright disengages from this project the problem is only delayed, and will resurface in the future. The underlying problem is that a business model intermediary such as Access Copyright is going to have an extremely hard time providing a balanced view of copyright. Access Copyright is an administrative body for business models which seek to collect royalties from an increasing number of uses of creative works. The growing number of business models which fund the one-time costs of the production of creativity, allowing the marginal cost to users to be the marginal cost of production to the creator of zero, are not going to be adequately represented by Access Copyright. One of the most critical steps to making Captain Copyright fulfil its claimed mandate of educating people about copyright issues is to allow an organization other than one representing intermediaries or business models to take it over. I don't have a single organization in mind as I don't think one exists, but a coalition of groups such as the Creators Rights Alliance (minus the collectives), Appropriation Art, CLUEcan.ca and others might be able to offer the required balance. Unless Access Copyright disengages from this project the problem is only delayed, and will resurface in the future. The underlying problem is that a business model intermediary such as Access Copyright is going to have an extremely hard time providing a balanced view of copyright. Access Copyright is an administrative body for business models which seek to collect royalties from an increasing number of uses of creative works. The growing number of business models which fund the one-time costs of the production of creativity, allowing the marginal cost to users to be the marginal cost of production to the creator of zero, are not going to be adequately represented by Access Copyright.

One of the most critical steps to making Captain Copyright fulfil its claimed mandate of educating people about copyright issues is to allow an organization other than one representing intermediaries or business models to take it over. I don’t have a single organization in mind as I don’t think one exists, but a coalition of groups such as the Creators Rights Alliance (minus the collectives), Appropriation Art, CLUEcan.ca and others might be able to offer the required balance.

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