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I have been writing a column for @locusmag for 14 years (!) and it's been some of my best work.
Blogging (and tweet-threading) is a good way to keep track of the ideas and events that seem significant - breaking them down for an audience helps me make sense of them.
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Blogging (and tweet-threading) is a good way to keep track of the ideas and events that seem significant - breaking them down for an audience helps me make sense of them.
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The value of all that short-form work comes together when it's time to do something longer and more synthetic, pulling on all these threads that I've carefully teased out and organized in my own personal memex.
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Today, Locus published my longest, most substantial column ever, a piece that I wrote in something of a white heat about a month ago, called (somewhat ironically): "IP."
locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-d…
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The digital rights movement has a longstanding hostility to the term "intellectual property," raising two objections to the term:
1. It's incoherent: patents, copyright, trademarks and other "IP" have little in common with one another in their rubrics or contours.
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1. It's incoherent: patents, copyright, trademarks and other "IP" have little in common with one another in their rubrics or contours.
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2. "IP" was deliberately promulgated in the 1960s/70s as an alternative to the age old term, "author's monopoly," a term that warned us that lurking beneath any government grant of exclusivity to ideas or expressions was a monopoly with all its problems.
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Now, creators have long bristled at this second objection, pointing out that getting a copyright didn't make you a monopolist in the sense of having "market power" - the ability to set prices and terms for your products.
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