Recently in the NY Times, Mark Helprin asked the question, A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t It’s Copyright? The argument he makes is simple: If I invest in and develop real property, I and my heirs own the rights to that property until such time as we sell them. Intellectual Property, on the other hand, [...]
Image via Wikipedia The Artist as Marketer and Performer Ever since the dawn of the digital age ( December, 1974) we’ve been hearing about the death of copyright and intellectual property. The reasoning goes something like this: Information such as movies, music and writing can now be perfectly preserved, copied and distributed for virtually no [...]
