{"id":13679,"date":"2013-05-29T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2013-05-29T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:00:10","slug":"copyright-and-trivial-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13679","title":{"rendered":"Copyright and Trivial Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am linking to How does copyright work in space?<\/a> where I read the summary even though the actual article is at The Economist<\/a>. That’s because while the subject of the complexity of copyright is interesting, or possibly depressing, what got me was this comment<\/p>\n

We live in a world where sending a guitar into space is trivial while ironing out rights agreements is the tough part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I understand the sentiment, but I’m also bothered by the characterization of sending anything into space as trivial<\/em> (and besides, copyright is hard because we choose to make it so). Too often, “trivial” is a tag placed on an effort when someone else does it. It reminded me of a comment one of my previous commanding officers had made to the research group of which I am a member, which was basically that because of his past experience, he had the appreciation that most of the work that goes on in getting a job done happens behind the scenes. In our case, that building a top-of-the-line atomic clock isn’t easy, and that the uninformed often look at the final product (or result) without the comprehension that 90% or more of the project is invisible, like an iceberg. Making it look<\/em> easy doesn’t mean it is<\/em> easy.<\/p>\n

Which is why I want to point out that putting a guitar into space, like many endeavors, isn’t trivial. I would also count some of the efforts of my former shipmates, such as operating a nuclear submarine, or landing an airplane on a tiny postage-stamp of a flight deck bobbing in the ocean. At night, even. A lot of really hard work and discipline go into achieving these things, and that you only rarely hear about failures of such efforts is pretty frikkin’ amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am linking to How does copyright work in space? where I read the summary even though the actual article is at The Economist. That’s because while the subject of the complexity of copyright is interesting, or possibly depressing, what … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-navy","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}