{"id":2569,"date":"2014-03-23T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2014-03-23T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T14:16:47","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-the-politics-of-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on the Politics of Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cory Doctorow appears in an <a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/?p=5111\">interesting video<\/a> where he discusses the politics of copyright and how our current policies just don&#8217;t make any sense. He repeatedly applies those policies to other areas where <i>everyone<\/i> can see how ridiculous they are. Somehow, though, as soon as we start talking about \u201cmedia\u201d people think it all makes sense. <\/p>\n<p> The video is about 17 minutes long but well worth your time. Watching it made me angry at how stupidly we&#8217;re behaving and that no one can see that the purpose of copyright as currently applied is the preservation of the business models of a few large conglomerates. It&#8217;s shameful, really. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow appears in an interesting video where he discusses the politics of copyright and how our current policies just don&#8217;t make any sense. He repeatedly applies those policies to other areas where everyone can see how ridiculous they are. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}