Cultural agoraphobia and the library as mausoleum
-are two of the more attention-grabbing concepts from this Guardian piece by Richard Smith on the ‘beefing up’ of copyright law and its cultural consequences. Hold on, I can’t in good conscience have an ugly phrase like ‘beefing up’ segue into half-hearted alliteration like that.
Cultural agoraphobia and the library as mausoleum are two of the more attention-grabbing concepts from this Guardian piece by Richard Smith on the commercial consolidation of copyright and its calamitous consequences for our cultural commons.