Internet freedom doesn’t mean a free-for-all | Brief letters

2026-02-01 - 16:55

Intellectual property | Contact point | The car’s the star | Scandi duvets | Swiss roll solution Jonathan Liew’s elegy to honesty (Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft, 28 January)( was as elegant as usual. But he’s missed one crucial factor: the (then utopian) expectation that on the internet everything should be free – an expectation that, once normalised, has had a toxic effect on media right across the world. Ed Freeman London • I note that the Guardian has “reached out to” the Kennedy Center for comment (Philip Glass withdraws world premiere of his Lincoln symphony from Kennedy Center, 27 January). Could it not have “contacted” the organisation instead? This would have saved two unnecessary words. Stephen Chicken Duns, Scottish Borders Continue reading...