roundtable: RE: NO MICKEY MOUSE

roundtable: RE: NO MICKEY MOUSE

RE: NO MICKEY MOUSE

jack@his.com
Sat, 05 Aug 95 10:10:26 

From: jack@his.com
Message-Id: <9508051010.0EAJK08@his.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 95 10:10:26 
Subject: RE: NO MICKEY MOUSE
To: roundtable@cni.org


Curtiss, thank you for forwarding Kirt's comments.  As he said, these 
ideas are still unstructured, but no thinking person can ignore them, 
and they certainly challenge some of the knee-jerk responses to the 
perils of "media concentration" which we are witnessing today.  The 
anti-monopolist analyses and strategies regarding these activities 
begin from the same faulty assumptions that the would-be monopolists 
themselves make - namely, the industrial paradigm of intellectual 
property.  Technology is changing that, as Kirt points out, and it 
would behoove those of us with a humanist bias to pay attention.  
Vigdor's sometimes strident comments in this space straddle these 
views and, for me, represent a good departure point.  But Kirt's "from 
the top of the head" ideas - that is, not pre-digested - enrich this 
dialogue immensely.  Thanks Kirt.

Hmmnh.


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