The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture

An anonymous reader writes "James Boyle, professor at Duke Law School, has a piece in the Financial Times in which he argues that a 'copyright black hole is swallowing our culture.' He explains some of the issues surrounding Google Books, and makes the point that these issues wouldn't exist if we had a sane copyright law. Relatedly, in recent statements to the still-skeptical European Commission, Google has defended their book database by saying that it helps to make the Internet democratic. Others have noted that the database could negatively affect some researchers for whom a book's subject matter isn't always why they read it."

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Re:Democratic?

[Anonymous Coward]

When the english speaking white man will stop expecting my language to become english by virtue of my shared skin color, we'll talk.

Arrest him now!

[zmollusc]

Unless this professor is arrested and waterboarded immediately the terrorists will win!!

Re:Democratic?

[networkBoy]

Yes, because next comes ad-hominim and then with the use of the strawman, we're at burningman.
-nB

Re:Democratic?

[jmac_the_man]

So what third party is Barack Obama a member of?

Re:Democratic?

[raynet]

The topic went past the event horizon and isn't part of this universe anymore.