My favorite copyright scholar, William Patry, wrote this morning about an experiment by Karl Fogel, in which Fogel interviews folks on the streets of Chicago about their thoughts on copyright.
I thought this particularly valuable to share in light of my depressing post yesterday about how badly artists are getting screwed in their record contracts as a direct result of file sharing. Based on Fogel's findings, if the general public really knew the consequences of their actions, maybe they wouldn't do it - those feelings of guilt should be greatly amplified because, regardless of whether file sharing really hurts the bottom line of the majors, it has done irreparable harm to artists.
