Copyright and Net Neutrality: An attempt to highlight the nasty bits
There has been a fair amount of heated debate around how technology effects ownership, control and innovation. Specifically, this debate has fallen under the headings of copyright and network neutrality. I would like to spend a few paragraphs looking at these discussions highlighting what I think are the particularly salient (or nasty) bits as well as how, in my view, these two issues dovetail in to each other. The basic premise is that traditional property law applied to a digital paradigm with stifle innovation, not just by by making it legally difficult to innovate but by providing a structure by which ownership extend not just to creative works but more insidiously, to the means by which those creative works can enter a marketplace.
