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The State of Copyright Activism was written by Siva Vaidhyanathan in 2004. He is the Director of Communication Studies at New York University and in this essey he writes about how the current copyright system’s threats free speech, intellectual freedom, and the free flow of information. This text point to many importent cases of IP.
"Copyright, when well balanced, encourages the production and distribution of the raw material of democracy. It is supposed to be an economic incentive for the next producer, not a guarantee for the established. But after more than 200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution, copyright no longer offers strong democratic safeguards. It is out of balance. Each of these four safeguards is under attack by the copyright cartel."
Read it here: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/siva/
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