christine zmölnig: "copyright or the right to copy? – alternatives to intellectual property protection online".

it seems (and not surprisingly) that every effort of mankind to enlighten the human spirit sooner or later ends in its exact opposite. originally, copyright was established to protect the authors from a monopoly of the publishers. today it's the publishers who scream for copyright protection. naturally, this raises the old question about whether both the "good" and the "bad" side of being human are immanent in such efforts already from their beginning as a tiny mind eruption. this is the tragedy of humanity and humanities and of me not being a philosopher (at least i would not call myself one).