Bret Dawson, much in contrast of Michael Eisner, believes that copyrights hinders human ability. He used the Anthrax incident to show that a patent of a chemical mixture can cost many people their life. Yet with the increase of corporate influence on the day to day life of human beings, they have the power to say "No, this is ours and ours alone. If we can't fulfill the need, well then no one else can." This is the point Dawson is trying to push across the article, the more patents and copyrights are put in place, the more things are restricted. And when corporations have power to regulate who and what is using their protected material, there is no end at which this can extend. "It would mean the Viacom's and the Disney's and the News Corporation's of the very near future would own great volumes of information about your comings and goings, enormous databases full of your private life" (Dawson ¶28).
This is the sad truth we live in today. With an increase of news reports that Facebook owns us and that the NSA is tracking us, its astonishing. From the moment we are born to the day we die, we are bombarded with adverts from private industries. Nearly everything we own is branded with a companies logo or name blatantly on it to advertise to other potential buyers that person may come across. We dream of owning this type of clothing or this brand of car. Unbeknownst to many, most digital media we purchase isn't even owned. What is purchased is a license to use this media. We know logos before we know words. That is the most disheartening aspect of this situation.
This is the sad truth we live in today. With an increase of news reports that Facebook owns us and that the NSA is tracking us, its astonishing. From the moment we are born to the day we die, we are bombarded with adverts from private industries. Nearly everything we own is branded with a companies logo or name blatantly on it to advertise to other potential buyers that person may come across. We dream of owning this type of clothing or this brand of car. Unbeknownst to many, most digital media we purchase isn't even owned. What is purchased is a license to use this media. We know logos before we know words. That is the most disheartening aspect of this situation.