Great lecture from science fiction author and Boing Boinger, Cory Doctorow, talking about copyright law and creativity at Google. He is on tour promoting his collection of computer related stories: Overclocked, stories of the future present.
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be available on Google Video, whose player has random access along the timeline. The You Tube player annoyingly needs to load fully before you can choose a location, and it doesn’t seem to cache in my browser. So I’ve had to restart the damn thing three times, and listen to the intro three times and still haven’t gotten to the end of the lecture. This isn’t so bad for the usual under-ten-minutes You Tube Video, but this one is almost an hour long. We’ll listen to the end together.
Cory mentions some problem he has with Google Video’s drm, that I guess does not apply to You Tube. Maybe this is why it is on You Tube.
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as always - great work. thanks for posting this. really interesting. i must admit, an awful lot that was running through my mind already, but articulated so concisely and humorously by cory.
i’ll be looking out for some more of his written word.
i posted a short follow up; entitled ‘copyright arms race.’ in case you care to read.
Thanks Lewis, I noticed the linkback on your blog in my logs, oh what a nerd I am. I was going to give a link to your post here, but you don’t have permalinks. Every blog needs permalinks.
yea, i need to rip some php out the first chance i get. i have said to myself that i would stay away from the computer this summer as much as possible, haha.
http://www.ldexterldesign.co.uk/#copyright_arms_race03marker is the best i can do at the minute.