Sometimes you read something that, while it doesn‛t say anything new, says something better than the stuff you‛ve read before. I‛ve been thinking a lot about oppositional copyfight discourse lately, and then I ran across this quote from John Blossom several days ago in Open Access News:

Copyright can be the starting point of a dialogue rather than an impermeable barrier, a concept promoted by the Creative Commons approach to content licensing. When copyright becomes viewed as a right to discuss a relationship on one‛s own terms rather than a demand to avoid relationships, copyrighted content will find its way into more useful venues more quickly - with monetization to follow....Copyright is a tool born of the industrial age that is struggling to find its place in a post-industrial era. Copyrighting has allowed intellectual property to flourish for centuries, but as the factors supporting the flourishing of intellectual property shift so must our approach to copyright management. It‛s a useful tool that has not outgrown its usefulness, but one whose core value is shifting rapidly in an era of open access to content.