Clay tells BoingBoing about how he was thwarted from making a copy of a video of him given to him by a friend. As always, he brings matters to a very sharp point : “This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders — they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity.” (I’d put it slightly differently, albeit less pithilly: When copyright enforcement is built into machinery, it favors artificial scarcity over fair use and over the rights of copyholders.) [Technorati tags: shirky copyright]

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