Last week I promoted William Patry's book, with an obvious suggestion that I agree with his viewpoint. I will be listening to him talk this evening in Ottawa (He speaks in Toronto tomorrow, October 14'th). We have Canadian examples of people from the other side of the Copyright Wars that articulate their views well, such as Barry Sookman. Please read When Creativity Goes Digital where I critiqued one of his articles.
I had a similar feeling to reading one of Mr. Sookman's articles when listening to the September 19 episode of This Week in Law which included professor Douglas Lichtman as a guest. These are people where I strongly disagree with what they are often saying, but don't think of them as disagreeable people. It is as if Mr. Sookman and Lichman are nice people who simply live in a different world as their experiences are very different from my own.