Comments on: Free Content http://www.girldetective.net/?p=63 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Tue, 12 May 2026 07:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Erik http://www.girldetective.net/?p=63&cpage=1#comment-214 Erik Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=63#comment-214 I most definitely do agree that MOST content should be free, and I'm intrigued by the idea that a free form of ALL content SHOULD be available. I support it, in the abstract and as an ideal. I also agree that the Disnefication of the world extends to a rather radical view of what copyright is for. On the other hand, even in 1940, in the most excellent film version of "The Philadelphia Story," Jimmy Stewart's Macaulay Connor laments that he'll never make a decent living as a writer, so long as there's a library in town. I'm not arguing from the RIAA's position (and you can check my iPod and corroborate that). Information has a natural tendency toward freedom. Creators of content should always be free to choose to give it away. However, art and commerce have a long and storied history together, and that's not always a bad thing. I most definitely do agree that MOST content should be free, and I’m intrigued by the idea that a free form of ALL content SHOULD be available. I support it, in the abstract and as an ideal. I also agree that the Disnefication of the world extends to a rather radical view of what copyright is for. On the other hand, even in 1940, in the most excellent film version of “The Philadelphia Story,” Jimmy Stewart’s Macaulay Connor laments that he’ll never make a decent living as a writer, so long as there’s a library in town.

I’m not arguing from the RIAA’s position (and you can check my iPod and corroborate that). Information has a natural tendency toward freedom. Creators of content should always be free to choose to give it away. However, art and commerce have a long and storied history together, and that’s not always a bad thing.

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