John Doe & Copyright
I’m obviously no professional when it comes to copyright questions. But talking to many people about current issues, I’ve noticed that by reading lots about it and clicking around in Wikipedia copyright/license discussions, I’ve picked up this and that.
Naturally, I’m always wondering how “normal people” and non-IT people see current copyright. When I was driving back from the station tonight, a listener e-mail was read on the radio: If they could play a certain song; If they couldn’t retrieve it, the writer was offering so send the MP3.
There are various reasons why this offering might be totally legal and okay. But for me, it just sounds like somebody doesn’t get the idea of copyright. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not blaming him; I only see this as yet another hint that copyright needs to be vastly changed, because usage of copyrighted media has changed so immensely.
