After you watch and listen to Lessig's OSCON presentation (linked below) about copyright, read this, Dan Gillmor's weekly column, which is starting to sound like the weekly round-up of horrors committed on the front of a slow and terrible war:
If you can set the rules, you can win the contest. That's the major reason the entertainment cartel is winning the debate over copyright in the Digital Age.
Average people are not part of the conversation, not in any way that matters. To the cartel and its chattel in the halls of political power, we are nothing but "consumers" — our sole function is to eat what the movie, music and publishing industries put in front of us, and then send money.
It's long past time for the rest of us to challenge the cartel's assumptions, actions and overall clout. Over the next few weeks and months I'll offer some suggestions.
