Legal Commentary

Wrong Target

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Being a big fan of Grant McCracken’s “This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics” I was a little startled to see a post snippet pop up in my feed reader that said,

I was talking in Vancouver yesterday. The slide that everyone seemed to like the best has “shoot the lawyers” as its title.

Fortunately, when you go to the full text, the above is immediately followed by,

My argument is that we have to be much more free with our intellectual property.

I’m OK with that, and in time it should be possible to explain to Prof. McCracken that current IP policies are not primarily the fault of lawyers but rather of incumbent content-provision industries trying to protect their business models. Yes, they often hire lawyers (and Senators) to do their dirty work, but those are just the means not the sources.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).