Thanks Mr. Patry

"Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately."
- William Patry. from his final post announcing the end of his personal blog.

I will miss Patry's insight into the ever crumbling world of copyright. I am by no means an expert, but I run into copyright issues on a weekly basis, as does many of us, and have had an "academic" interest in copyright issues since the late 90's.

While Patry's wasn't the only source of opinion out there and I wasn't always 100 percent in agreement (and admittedly a fair number of posts were over my head in terms of the legal speak) I found his blog a great source of info that I checked daily and it lived up to what a great blog should be. Thanks Mr. Patry.