Copyfight Ensues Over NY Times Op-Ed
May 21, 2007
| 9:32 AM
Sunday's New York Times had an interesting op-ed by novelist Mark Halprin titled "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?" In it, he laid out his argument for what amounts to perpetual copyright. "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind," Halprin wrote.
Reformists are crafting a reply to Halprin's text at Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig's wiki. Contributors have provided arguments against what they view as Halprin's misguided sense of "public good," "public domain" and "value of arts and ideas."
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