A look at copyright from an historical and political viewpoint

(In the interest of full-disclosure, the author of this piece at New TeeVee is my son.)

Steal This Film II is a Must-See
on New TeeVee, part of the GigaOm blog network, is review of the second installment in a video series by J.J. King that explores the debate over intellectual property in the age of the Internet.

Both the video and the reviewer favor an open exchange of creative efforts. As reviewer Jackson West states, "After all, long before Hammurabi’s Code, there was art and inquiry. And that’s where the piece excels — in making clear that the web is just an extension of our anthropologically deep desire to share culture with each other, a desire that predates modern social, political and economic institutions."