Jerry vs. Gaga
I am reading Jerry Seinfeld and his thoughts regarding Lady Gaga. Long story short, they moved her into his stadium suite where she made a real a-hole out of herself. I am not as old as Jerry, but I agree with all of his comments regarding Miss Gag. So she has taken the Madonna crash course in self promotion. Yippie! Good for her. Now I have the pleasure of another half ass talent becoming a celebrity for showing a nipple, saying a taboo word, or slipping the crotch shot. Now that I think about it, I am good with the nipple slip and crotch shot. ibf.
- why not? as someone once ritlghy remarked: our greatest poverty is the poverty of imagination. Why cant we subject audio-visual content to collective licensing? what is so inherently intractable about this content that makes it difficult to peg it within a collective licensing hole? just because other countries have not done it earlier, why can't we do it? secondly, there is a distinciton between collective licensing and compulsory licensing. Most of my points refer to compulsory licensing--not to collective licensing. you have to bear this distinction in mind. As to whether or not IP is property, there are extensive debates and people who argue on both sides of the fence. Some would strongly suggest that we move towards a liability rule framework. Look around you and you will see that even in the most entrenched of IP regimes such as patents (where the property nexus was often the strongest), judges refuse to grant routine injunctions---preferring rather to subject defendants effectively to compulsory licenses. Promote access and remunerate owners: seems like a good policy call to me. And the sooner we recognise it, the better.
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