{"id":192367,"date":"2009-04-07T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/07\/wanker-of-the-day-henry-porter\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:37:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-henry-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/07\/wanker-of-the-day-henry-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day: Henry Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Porter is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/apr\/05\/google-internet-piracy\">complaining about Google and Youtube<\/a>, because in negotiating with Performing Rights Society, the UK music licensing organization, Google, &#8220;took down the videos of the artists concerned,&#8221; when the PRS demanded \u00a30.22, about $0.40, for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">each video watched<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I would be surprised if Google <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">grosses<\/span> $0.04 per video watched on Youtube, and they are demanding nearly half a dollar, so Google tells you to pound sand, and it appears that he&#8217;s also angry because Google &#8220;only&#8221; takes down infringing material promptly when notified, when required by law, as opposed to&#8230;well, it&#8217;s not clear, but he thinks it&#8217;s bad.<\/p>\n<p>Tough.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the idea of IP as &#8220;property&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;temporary exclusive license&#8221; gets us, and it does not encourage the useful sciences and arts, which is what it&#8217;s there for, at least in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Porter is complaining about Google and Youtube, because in negotiating with Performing Rights Society, the UK music licensing organization, Google, &#8220;took down the videos of the artists concerned,&#8221; when the PRS demanded \u00a30.22, about $0.40, for each video watched. I would be surprised if Google grosses $0.04 per video watched on Youtube, and they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,984,1109,1025,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-europe","category-ip","category-technology","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}