What is more important to the human race?
July 19th, 2008
The preservation of knowledge or the preservation of capital? The preservation of knowledge has my vote, and so I am happy to hear about the current efforts of entities like the U.S. Library of Congress to review current law and pursue copyright legislation adjustments to allow them to fulfill their intended purpose of making sure that what is learned in one generation remains available for future generations to use and benefit from.
As a side note, this also sums up why I have pushed for and used Creative Commons licenses on things I have written and which I sell or have sold.
Thanks to Greg and his blog post for the story. Some of you have seen his post already, but I have several friends and readers who probably have not yet seen it. Give it a click and a quick read.
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1. nabil2199 | July 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Well,people(corporations) should realize that it’s knowledge that creates wealth not the other way around.
2. ayenack | July 26th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I think neither. I don’t believe one can exist without the other (unfortunately.) Without knowledge the mechanisms that create and expand capitol would be untenable. Without capitol the tenants of knowledge would decay and become scarce. The vitality that is created by the input of capitol or knowledge into either mechanism is often the advancing push that is needed to move forward I think.
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