“It’s Time to Overhaul Copyright Law”: Law Should Distinguish Between Cultural and Commercial

By Cory Doctorow. “We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about whats fair and what isnt at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation. A diverse and extremely sensible group of people are doing just this: the Access to Knowledge (A2K) treaty is a proposal from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to set out the rights and responsibilities of archivists, educators and people who provide access to disabled users of information….”

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