Long-time blogger (and even longer-time Canadian) Joe Clark has announced his new book project, "The Cranky Copyright Book." It promises to investigate that huge swath of intellectual territory between the RIAA and Cory Doctorow; his point being that neither party in the copyright wars has our (meaning: your) best interest at heart. He's also promising to go where no wo/man has dared to go before! "I will spend ages rereading the entire Ã…"uvres of [Larry] Lessig (and [Michael] Geist). I'll listen to all their interviews and watch all their presentations. And I'm going to write the first independent analysis of either of them that isn't financed by corporate copyright interests and isn't the work of a novelist with a horse in the race." FUN!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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He's doing this voluntarily?
He's like the David Blane of interesting things.
Does this mean Joe's going to start creating things? Zing!
It sounds interesting, but I have no confidence that this book will be a bestseller.
//insidery Canadian joke
I see Anil’s being as much of a dick as ever. He’s so accustomed to people treating him like an elder statesman. I’ve been published for 20 years, Dashes. And I don’t mean on TypePad.
Anyway, Hez(bollah-Tofu), “bestseller†isn’t something I’m shooting for here.
So a Canadian with no legal background is going to write a book saying what he thinks we should tell our congresspeople to do about copyright law, which will ultimately conclude that U.S. copyright law should have that European froufrou "moral rights" bullshit?