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A Manifesto For The Use Of "Digital Freedoms" As A Catchphrase

Philip Dorrell, 20 January 2012

There's a war going on between copyright and freedom. One of the battles in the war is public debate about which matters more.

But I think too much of the debate starts with the concept of "copyright", and then maybe eventually gets around to talking about "freedom".

We need to start talking about "freedom" as the important thing, we need to consider which particular freedoms matter, and then we need to consider what that might tell us about how we should reform copyright and other forms of intellectual property (and also how we should limit the enforcement of intellectual property, if enforcement involves reductions in our freedoms).

To sum all that up in a single catchy catchphrase, I suggest: Digital Freedoms.

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