Dan Gillmor: Studios’ copyright goal is total control
Dan Gillmor: “Jack Valenti says he and his movie-industry employers are all for compromise in the copyright wars. But the solutions they advocate for an admittedly tough dilemma, copyright infringement, are grossly one-sided. [–––] Spending millions of dollars on campaign contributions and lobbying, [the entertainment cartel] has persuaded Congress to enact laws reflecting a radical view of information and its use. [They] believe that control of information – absolute control over how it can be used – belongs to the owner of the copyright. They insist, moreover, that copyrights should be able to last indefinitely. This is not a compromise, no matter what Valenti calls it.”