john degen

I’m a bit late getting to this because it was published while I was away, but my friend, the Toronto poet and author John Degen, wrote an essay for the Globe in which he declared that the so-called “copyright wars” were over, if indeed they had ever started. Like everything John puts to paper it was elegantly written, and, I think, he’s basically right in pointing out that the “free culture” movement has failed to engage the general public in its “I shouldn’t have to pay for anything” agenda.