inamerrata

One of the big things that recent years have demonstrated is that one of the big problems with the direction of copyright is the imbalance between company rights and users’ rights. Shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses, court decisions, and legislation have all been favouring vendors and authors, while consumers are becoming more annoyed and less attentive to their side of the copyright bargain, from napster and bittorrent to not bothering to even read licenses.

Cem Kaner has some interesting thoughts on a consumer bill of rights to address some of these issues, from a US perspective anyway. (Hat tip: mbp)