COPYCENSE

(Editor’s Note: This article accompanies a lecture K. Matthew Dames gave Oct. 9, 2007, to the Digital Libraries class (IST 677) at Syracuse University’s iSchool. The Fall 2007 class is taught by University Librarian Suzanne Thorin and Angela Ramnarine-Rieks, web administrator at Syracuse University Library.)

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Since we began publishing independently, we have railed against two things consistently: sloppy, misleading, or biased commentary about the copyright debate; and copyright propaganda disguised as “education.” (Unsurprisingly, the latter is filled with the former.) Our most recent comment about copyright education appeared last month.

Almost all of the “education” efforts we have criticized have been initiatives developed by large businesses that derive most of their revenue from copyrighted art or entertainment, or trade groups that represent those businesses. Before now, we would have thought that the court system would be above politicizing the copyright debate, or invoking egregious bias into it, because the court system and members of the judiciary must arbiter copyright disputes fairly, without a predisposition toward either the copyright owner or an alleged infringer.

Unfortunately, we have been proven wrong.

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