Posts by Don Christie
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Anything that limits our obsession with recycling stuff honestly at this point is fine by me.
Well that's a shame. We would surely have missed out on M.I.A.'s excellent "Paper Planes" under your rules.
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Optimize supply chains at home in my spare time?
Well, you could - http://www.adempiere.com/ADempiere_ERP
But you knew I was going to say that, right?
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I also have no beef with Disney holding on to Mickey Mouse to be honest.
Maybe. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with them holding the rights over the works of AA Milne for longer than absolutely necessary.
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I think what we do with copyright needs to be finer-grained than what you suggest.
Yes, I think you are right. Though not necessarily in the commercial/non-commercial split. I think that split is false and certainly something that is (mostly) avoided in the free/open source software world.
I do wonder just how much revenue copyright itself drives. It is interesting that so many have access to free "pirated content" and yet when given the opportunity to pay reasonable for the same content they will often do so. I don't think copyright on its own explains that phenomenon.
Which is not to do away with copyright, just to suggest that its effect can be overstated.
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Russell, the point is this, the term of copyright was originally set to 7 + 7 years to allow publishers and authors time to reap reward for their works - assuming they could get an audience who would pay for their efforts.
At the time, 300 years ago, the distribution networks were muddy roads, horses and sailing ships. Today, the distribution network for digital content is te interwebs. The potential audience is billions and the time to market is seconds *.
The response of the US "content" industry has been to demand copyright terms of life plus 120 years. I am proposing a counter offer based solely on the improvements that technology have brought us in the intervening years.
Which proposal is the most reasonable in that context? I am certainly willing to listen to arguments in favour of a longer term than 24 hours for digital content. Not to do so would be stupid, but longer than the 7 years deemed reasonable for publishers 300 years ago? Come on.
*Note, for the purposes of this debate I am limiting my attention to digital content...
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Given the theme of Russell's article, isn't it remarkable (and good) that this time round the discussion is about gender and the internet rather than copyright.
Maybe now would not be a good time to throw in my "24 hours" digital copyright term proposal. Round about minute 5, but the preceding 5 minutes Q&A are good.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to LIISA,
LIISA - thank you for carrying out that interview with Lessig. I will wait for the OGG podcast to go up so I can play it on Ubuntu. Fortunately Radio NZ are excellent at providing us with free choices.
On the TPPA front, not all of us have given up. NZRise (http://nzrise.org.nz) organised the following presentations to TPPA negotiators in Vietnam the week before last. It went well. And like many of these good things it received financial support from InternetNZ (as well as CCIA and Catalyst IT).
See this article for details:
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Only one party can be delegated a ccTLD.
Yes, but there are plenty of ccTLDs to chose from. PublicAddress uses .net for example. Others are using .tv, .ly and .co
What INZ and their subsidiaries have done is set up a system of governance and transparency that makes .nz one of the most trusted ccTLDs in the world. That's one of the many reasons I am so proud to be associated with INZ. The work of those who have preceded people like myself has been remarkable.
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So that’s why .nz domain names are $35-40 a year, while .net .org or .com names are only $15-20.
This obviously gives lie to the idea that INZ somehow has a "natural monopoly" on domain names.
What is also important to note is that wholesale fees have been falling in real terms year after year. The last actual reduction was last year. .nz domain names wholesale at $15/year.
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content creators are, as I noted, thin on the ground
Well, no. My company, Catalyst IT, creates thousands of lines of "content" every single week. I really do object to not being included in the sector that has interest in content creation and therefore issues of copyright etc.
That said, it is a sad that members of the film and music sectors in particular may not be attending. This is a reflection of many in those industry's inability to harness business models that their consumers are demanding.
I will be at Nethui, as a sponsor and a member of the Internet NZ council. Very much looking forward to catching up with folks, and congratulations to Vikram and his team for putting together an event that has been so heavily subscribed.