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Important info on how our current system works when it comes to the arts as both artists and the control-wielding publishing giants. The author offers analysis that shows how we need to shift away from control and into open access. Technology frees us, but we spend too much time up in arms about the piddly amounts of money we believe we're losing to pirates, rather than scrutinizing the 3-5 powerhouses that are actually taking all of our money.

Another amazing day in Prague 😊

Found a book shop open late, with books in loads of different languages, and watched a couple of street performers doing a fire show that was just amazing! It also made me think of the tagged, because they weren't asking for money but people (myself amongst them) were happily putting in any change they had while watching the performance, even though they didn't have to!

Review 1 of 2 for today 😊

A criticism of the current media industry. He addresses its unsustainable nature in light of the internet, and also how we don't need it to work because creators and fans will always look for a way to support their favourite creators for future content. He sites lots of examples like Patreon and GoFundMe projects.

A fascinating read, with lots of important ideas.

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Doctorow's advice to creators in this internet age is to "think like a dandelion" - adopting strategies that thrive on cheap copying. Will Wheaton's impassioned audiobook narration adds its own degree of weight to the argument for getting copyright right.

According to Viacom's theory and its Amicus backers, privacy is incompatible with copyright in the 21st century. They maintained that the ability of the public to communicate in private was an existential threat to creativity itself. Fortunately the judge disagreed.

"If I'm wrong, I promise that I'll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way."