Popular Copyright Blogger Calls It Quits
Here's some sad news in the intellectual property community -- noted copyright attorney William Patry is shutting down his popular blog after writing about 800 postings over about four years. He provided readers with two explanations for his decision: (1) The inability or refusal to accept the blog for what it is: a personal blog (2) The current state of copyright law is too depressing.
Patry wrote: "It is profoundly depressing, after 26 years full-time in a field I love, to be a constant voice of dissent. I have tried various ways to leaven this state of affairs with positive postings, much like television news shows that experiment with "happy features" ... But after awhile, this wore thin, because the most important stories are too often ones that involve initiatives that are, in my opinion, seriously harmful to the public interest. I cannot continue to be so negative, so often."
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