William Patry Ends His Blog

Apparently, he's removed his archives as well, so any links I've provided in my blog will accordingly be broken. His two reasons are that his blog has not been understood as a personal blog, rather than a representation of his views as senior copyright counsel to Google. And his second reason is that copyright law is too depressing. On this note his writes:

"Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately."

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