Andrew Gowers interviewed
My interview with Andrew Gowers has gone up on openDemocracy.
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“‘Look at the debates that there have been on intellectual property since the arrival of the internet. They have been loud and shallow. They have been between people who say everything’s free and you shouldn’t pay for anything and people who say everything’s mine, and you should pay for everything. And actually neither of them are right.’ Andrew Gowers is sitting in a back room of the British government’s vast Treasury building. It’s just a few hours after the launch of his year-long reviewof the framework governing intellectual property, a text he hopes will change the nature of the debate not just in Britain, but internationally.
“The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property has been broadly welcomed by copyright campaigners…”
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