We must engage in copyright debate

Dan Gillmor says We must engage in copyright debate. He says we must stop letting the entertainment companies set the terms of the legal discussions. We need to re-establish some balance, we need to re-educate ourselves, congress, and the public, and to learn the alternatives to the cartel\’s offerings.

\”Average people are not part of the conversation, not in any way that matters. To the cartel and its chattel in the halls of political power, we are nothing but “consumers\’\’ — our sole function is to eat what the movie, music and publishing industries put in front of us, and then send money.\”