{"id":425,"date":"2002-10-24T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=425"},"modified":"2002-10-24T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2002-10-25T00:24:04","slug":"ensuring-the-legacy-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/10\/24\/ensuring-the-legacy-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring the legacy of knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Perry Barlow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/idea_economy.article\">encapsulates<\/a> the copyright argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;when Jefferson and his fellow creatures of The Enlightenment<br \/>\ndesigned the system which became American copyright law, their primary<br \/>\nobjective was assuring the widespread distribution of thought, not profit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read that again, and let it sink in.  The purpose of copyright law is to assure the universal ownership of all knowledge.  The mechanism by which this goal is achieved is that copyright is granted for a <b>limited time<\/b> as an exclusive ownership of knowledge in order to promote creativity via profit incentive.  Profit is the <b>means<\/b>, not the <b>end<\/b>.  Without the limit, the entire goal of copyright law &#8211; i.e. the assurance that all knowledge ultimately belongs to the commons for the good of all &#8211; is negated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Perry Barlow encapsulates the copyright argument: &#8230;when Jefferson and his fellow creatures of The Enlightenment designed the system which became American copyright law, their primary objective was assuring the widespread distribution of thought, not profit. Read that again, and let it sink in. The purpose of copyright law is to assure the universal ownership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}