There's no balance. Either you have freedom of speech or you don't. Either you trust in the marketplace of ideas or you don't have one. Mark Twain once said that "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." But that was before the Internet. Now both can travel all the way around the world without needing shoes, and do so instantly. The medium is not the message.
A. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
B. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
These are mutually exclusive, just as Freedom of Speech and Copyright are mutually exclusive. Choose one.
It's amazing how frequently we see stories of copyright being used as censorship
It's not amazing to me. Copyright is used only for censorship. That's the entire mechanism of copyright: legal suppression of media. It's better called censor-right.
The BitTorrent protocol is now the fastest way to download items from the Archive, because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, as well as from other people who have downloaded these torrents already. The distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with slower access to the Archive.
Stallman applies no-derivs (-ND) restrictions on everything he writes, and everything the US FSF puts out. -NC isn't the only unFree restriction, -ND violates the Four Freedoms as well.
Oh my god, this. This is how I became a copyright abolitionist. I spent about a year in the Kafka-esque nightmare that is the music license permission system. I made it out alive, but Never Again.
This is why my faith has been restored in people. Until I saw how ordinary people were willing to put themselves at risk to share, I was a misanthrope. Now I think people are pretty cool.
All he did was take someone else's work, and show you how HE saw it. It's not some great new work, it's just someone else's work with his fingers on it. Nothing more and nothing less.
This isn't a problem of copyright - this is a problem of common sense. The guy knew from the get go that nothing would come of this. Why cry now?
Don't be so hard on George Lucas. We all know his last 3 Star Wars movies are a lame and uninspired mess. It's true we can't blame copyright for that - it was more a lack of common sense, like you say. The point of this post is that fans like Topher Grace can fix those mistakes, and we could all benefit.
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my favorite paragraph
Well said.
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Choose One
B. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
These are mutually exclusive, just as Freedom of Speech and Copyright are mutually exclusive. Choose one.
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Re: Re: Nina Paley
http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/03/t ax-incentives/
http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/03/10/my-works-are-like-my-children/
http://mimia ndeunice.com/2010/12/15/balance-again/
http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/12/14/incentive-to-create/
http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/31/a-world-without-poop/
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It's not amazing to me. Copyright is used only for censorship. That's the entire mechanism of copyright: legal suppression of media. It's better called censor-right.
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archive.org
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that face
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Yay!
I hope some of these movies end up on the Internet Archive next.
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Open Source Trademarks
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This.
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archive.org
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Very nicely put.
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On the post: North Korean Study Confirms It: People Will Share, Whatever The Risks
faith in humanity restored
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Don't be so hard on George Lucas. We all know his last 3 Star Wars movies are a lame and uninspired mess. It's true we can't blame copyright for that - it was more a lack of common sense, like you say. The point of this post is that fans like Topher Grace can fix those mistakes, and we could all benefit.
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Awesome
Not me. This is excellent. Go witty protestors!
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"Intellectual Chaos"?
Like, anyone could think whatever they want? Sounds good to me.
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decommission all of it
The equipment was a waste of money to begin with. It won't be wasted any less if it's "used"; it'll just generate more waste, especially time.