I think that Cory Doctorow in his latest piece printed in Guardian has a good point. Copyright law has to start distinguishing between commercial and cultural uses. But this is not at all a simple distinction. It needs to be discussed, analyzed, tried out and revised constantly. It is just as difficult a distinction as that between commercial and private use. But I think that we have to go this way. And I feel there is some appreciation of this among the old cold warriors of the copyright fights. See for instance the Danish collecting society KODAs pilot with Creative Commons that allows artist to release their music under a non-commercial license and reserving the right to collect license fee for commercial use to KODA.

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