Today’s highlights: Lawrence Lessig talks about Fair Use / Google Book Search at an amazing video sharing site called youtube, which reminds me of flickr, but for video. Then a friend sent this link to what must be one of the all-time great music videos (and I rediscovered the funky little animation with the disco ball on the same site).
I have spent some time recently looking at Economic research on patents and it turns out that patents are — especially in the case of developing countries — largely useless…. However, if one listened to the international debates at WIPO or the WTO (the two organisations that practically “own” intellectual rights – pun intended) it seems that either the experts have not read any of the research or they just don’t care.
