One man's intellectual property is another man's nothing

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These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they
are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to
nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are
nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.

This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe. #

Ach Ja, Die Stoffe ist der Geist

Sigh

"Intellectual property has to be just as protected as material property. All creativity will be destroyed if you have a mentality that everything should be free."

The Good German Parliamentarian ist soooo richtig. The elan vital of lobbyists, middlemen, advertising yeggs, their bartenders and valets could seriously be impaired by the dissolution of their host.

Towering Germanic intellects such as these might benefit from a talk with Steve Albini.

Update: The problem with music - dead link on textism.

High C/.s

A Day for Open Access

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, Students for FreeCulture (SFC) and The Public Library of Science (PLoS) are putting together the First Open Access Day, October 14, 2008.

“Making full use of the Internet to share and reuse content without restriction is pushing scientific communication into the future." - Peter Jerram, PLoS CEO.

More here.