Simplicity Rules

Last night I went to Portland State University to hear Cory Doctorow talk about copyright. He has released several books under the Creative Commons license and considers himself a “copyright practitioner.”

Doctorow traced changes in technology over the years and how they affected copyright. He obviously has a grasp on where things are headed. The podcast of his talk (72 MB, 1:18) is worth a listen if you are a publisher, an aggregator, a re-mixer, or even a simple consumer of copyrighted material.