George Nemeth and myself have been invited to debate the silly notion that copyright laws should be changed to "protect" old media. Lordy lordy lordy. 
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Dec. 1st, noon.
Here's a few of the issues I'll bring up during the debate:
- the 4th estate doesn't get any more special treatment, they're "just" a business like everyone else
- Hollywood resisted the VCR when it first came out - and the DVD as well
- 85% of Italians claimed they would NEVER use a cell phone - in 1989
- instead of trying to game the laws, why doesn't the Plain Dealer think of itself as a platform? [2]
And BTW if you wanna know how I do in debates, why don't you ask Dave Winer what happened when he and I debated at Stewart Alsop's Agenda conference in 1988. The theme was "should HyperCard be system software?"