“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing.” – David Bowie in the June 9 New York Times, via LibraryPlanet.
The TeleRead take: Of course Hollywood may well be spending up, er, speeding up, the process via campaign donations–to encourage Washington to adapt unrealistic copyright laws that defy the natures of humans and technology alike. TeleRead, while pro-copyright, would overhaul it by increasing the importance of the library model and helping to reduce the incentive for bootlegging. It would provide for fair compensation–from a national digital library fund, supported by a mix of public and private money–for content creators. Although TeleRead could focus on books, similar concepts could be applied to music.
Meanwhile, surprise of surprise, today’s New York Times carries a report that software piracy is on the rise.
