Quoting Steve: "The fact that Minds of Concern is potentially undermined by the legal system in the form of a standard or "shrinkwrap" license the New Museum has with its ISP is not insignificant."
Absolutely, and becoming less and less insignificant as time goes by and we find ourselves being put in an increasingly smaller intellectual property box - not because of public interest copyright issues but because of income stream protection by the usual suspects. See the shameless promolgation of disinfomration on the value of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to date: DMCA [wired.com] Where is the representative of the public interest in policy creation on this topic?
We should only encourage those willing to probe the borders in the public interest if it makes the public policy discussion visible and engaging to more than the club of industry insiders.
