tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post3595883778744211991..comments2024-03-10T10:55:11.119+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Are you an ordinary internet user? Do you use what you find online? If so, read on ...Marie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-87376352246085506692011-02-16T00:29:06.278+00:002011-02-16T00:29:06.278+00:00Because modern copyright issues are often essentia...Because modern copyright issues are often essentially fights over definitions of terms, the problems Anonymous outlines are perhaps inevitable. What the term 'Copyright' actually means has essentially become an ideological/political issue , it is no longer a simple commercial matter <br /> <br />The survey was clearly aimed at sampling public attitudes to the very gray areas around obtaining 'things' without payment that the web has created. <br /><br /><br />Being a visual artist, I come from a very old ( financially viable) open source tradition,I was struck by the fairly narrow focus and lack of recursive awareness , behind the questions.John R walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-63519149463483688972011-02-15T13:05:15.324+00:002011-02-15T13:05:15.324+00:00Very problematic questions/statements in this. e.g...Very problematic questions/statements in this. e.g.<br /><br />"a system that does not respect copyright" - surely persons do or do not respect copyright, not systems. Systems can respect requests or intentions of rights owners, but cannot independently respect copyright.<br /><br />"You need a new software for your computer. What do you do?" - no option here for "download the freely available version from the official website"<br /><br />"Some people think that copyright should be enforced even though this could limit new forms of fruition of creative contents born with the coming of the Internet. Do you agree with this statement?" - leading question<br /><br />"Have you ever thought that copyright law and the control activity for its respect were somehow limiting your rights as a citizen of the Internet?" - surely this is what copyright law de facto does, as any negative right...<br /><br />"How often do you connect to the Internet to get digital creative works (movies, music, software, pictures, videogames...)?"/"Many questions will refer to the concept of “digital creative works, i.e. all creative products that are protected by copyright and that can be shared and purchased in digital format (such as music, films, images, texts as well as video games and software)." - read broadly, "getting digital creative works" could easily include "reading Jeremy's blog", whish then does not fit with the tenor of the remaining questions, which seem to deal with packaged, discretely downloadable works...<br /><br />I gave up half way because I felt that my answers could not fit the responses usefully.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-71588944677686120592011-02-14T02:09:27.683+00:002011-02-14T02:09:27.683+00:00Jeremy I have just done the survey. Feel it could ...Jeremy I have just done the survey. Feel it could have asked a bit more about people for whom ' free' distribution is free advertising.John R walkernoreply@blogger.com