Some time ago I posted about how artificial scarcity applied to travellers. Today I read about Clay Shirky who has a hard time in copying his own material, of which he is copyholder, because modern tools have been adjusted not to make this copy feasible… to protect copyright.
His comment was:
This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders — they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity.
I think the concept of artificial scarcity is a key concept. Fighting it high in my priority list. And yet it is a concept who is quite unknown. I made a search on delicious for artificialscarcity, artificial+scarcity and not one gave any result. Well I suppose there will soon be 3 results. But it is still a drop in the ocean.
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