Happy 2007! I feel like I suddenly get older today. Thanks to the ABU business society, I have a $50 dollar gift certificate from Chapters. I bought a couple of interesting books. I remember a study that I have read before saying that less than 50% of the books purchased are read thoroughly. A lot of people buy books, start a couple of pages, but will never at to the end of the book. On the other hand, over 90% of CDs or video purchased will be listened or watched thoroughly.
It must be interesting to know how many of my students actually can thoroughly read the textbook they buy, based on this study, maybe I should putting up videos for my students in the coming year. At the same time, a lot of Christians are lost in the wilderness for over 40 years and never be able to get to
Since I am rumbling about books, I may as well share my thoughts on copyrights. I don’t believe the current intellectual protection laws work, or efficient. I believe that intellectual properties should be treated as public goods, like government built highways. We should not and will not be able to exclude its usage to anyone. I want to propose a massive library system on all intellectual properties, like movies and songs. Everything can be downloaded freely and legally whereas certain form of income surtax will be deducted from citizens in order to finance the productions. People can pay and go to giant theatres or stay at home to watch their own copy using their small TV. Even though this may sound weird at this time, one may believe that taxpayers should not pay for services they don’t use. However, if every property owner has to finance their local school system, isn’t it more beneficial to society to collect taxes on intellectual public goods?
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