Somiatruites, Ciberderechos en la Red

"Si hay una ley que no respeta el 90% de las personas lo que hay que cambiar la ley, no los actos de las personas", he escuchado decir a más de uno. Jonathan Zittrain, profesor del Berkman Center for Internet and Society de la Universidad de Harvard, deja claro por qué no le gusta el copyright, compara su animadversión por esta ley con la que uno pueda tener por los impuestos, necesarios, sí, pero a los que uno no puede tener mucho apego. Y da algunos botones de muestra de la 'esquizofrenia' de la ley de copyright en EE UU (igual que en todas partes), puede leerse en 'The Copyright Cuffs'

"We live today under two copyright regimes—the law on one hand and reality as experienced and practiced by the public on the other. These regimes' orthodoxies have become increasingly divergent, but until recently they governed completely discrete spheres.The U.S. legal regime is found within Title 17 of the federal code. It proscribes such acts as the public performance of music without payment to the composer, or the copying of books without the permission of the author (or more likely the company to whom the author long ago assigned rights)...

For example, bars and restaurants that measure no more than 3,750 square feet (not including the parking lot, so long as the parking lot is used exclusively for parking purposes) can contain no more than four TVs of no more than 55 inches diagonally for their patrons to watch, so long as there is only one TV per room. The radio can be played through no more than six loudspeakers, with a limit of four per room. That is, unless the restaurant in question is run by "a governmental body or a nonprofit agricultural or horticultural organization, in the course of an annual agricultural or horticultural fair or exhibition conducted by such body or organization." Then it's OK to use more speakers."