Given that you’ll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they’ll be willing to pay for it? Edward Felten Read Quote
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They’re hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google. Edward Felten Read Quote
The problem – when you cast your net that wide – is you inevitably catch something you don’t want to catch. Edward Felten Read Quote
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. Edward Felten Read Quote
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they’ve gathered. Edward Felten Read Quote
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don’t think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move. Edward Felten Read Quote
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. Edward Felten Read Quote
The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet – we do, or should – but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want. Edward Felten Read Quote
