Fred von Lohmann joins Google

[Nicholas]

A recent Copyright and Technology[1] post reads, "Fred von Lohmann
Moves from EFF to Google."[2] Does this mean that he will be infusing
Google with some of the copyleft ideas he has championed at the EFF?
If this is the case, maybe he and Google will be looking for a
business model that can merge commercial transactions and copyleft
principles for all forms of digital media. One way this could be
achieved is by using the 'Rights Office' infrastructure described in
this group and elsewhere[3][4][5].

The Rights Office system uses peer based registration authorities that
independently record both consumer and producer rights to a creative
work. This enables all users to freely access creative products at
some level and trade them at another thus providing the mix between
commerce and copyleft. At the same time privacy and authenticity are
ensured and legally acquired products can compete economically with
'free' copies.

In the old analogue days copyright was mostly self-regulating because
it was easier to buy a copy than try and make your own. By making
legal digital copies more valuable than 'free' copies copyright could
again become self-regulating for the average user.

[1] http://copyrightandtechnology.com/
[2] http://copyrightandtechnology.com/2010/07/08/fred-von-lohmann-moves-from-eff-to-google/
[3] https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7079&osCsid=d3b40f5d7069ba7ed47b09360c2e68fe
("Trading Rights to Digital Content", Section 3)
[4] http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=133
[5] http://www.commonrights.com/