The Laws of Disruption
“The Law of Disruption,” writes Larry Downes in his new book of the same name, “is a simple but unavoidable principle of modern life: technology changes exponentially, but social, economic, and legal systems change incrementally.”
Today, we’re going to focus on one particular area of the legal system that modern technology is disrupting—copyrights. This is an area near and dear to us. After all, we publish a paid newsletter subject to copyright protections. The same is true for our books.
We face the same basic tradeoff that all media and software providers face: do we want the broadest dissemination possible — in which case our works are more vulnerable to piracy — or do we clamp down with a strong defense of our copyrights, limiting our reach in the process? There is no easy answer here.
“As the new world runs increasingly ahead of the old,” Downes begins, “social systems invariably break down, only to be dramatically reinvented to better suit the new environment to which human beings have already relocated.”
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