Dialogue with Ryan Lanham, Andy Robinson, and Michel Bauwens on “Intellectual Property”
I’ve attempted to organize two debate threads on the P2P list on the subject of “intellectual property” into a single document (warning–pdf). It’s very long–about 45 pages–because it’s extracted from threads totalling nearly two hundred separate posts, some of them quite long.
I have attempted to break up the posts into snippets and nest them, with indentations, to make it clear what each snippet is immediately in response to. That means the documents are not chronological. Rather, the snippets on the left hand margin are generally the oldest, and get newer as they’re indented further in.
I hope it’s self-explanatory and not too confusing. It’s loosely based on the flow-sheet techniques used by debate judges. I also apologize for the pdf format, but it was extremely difficult to work WordPress’s indentations properly in the earlier post on my exchange with Richard Stallman, with far fewer posts and far fewer (three as opposed to about twelve, I think) layers of nested responses. Anyway, I figured the discussions were worth preserving in a single place more accessible than the list archives.