All hip hop music takes samples of copyrighted work and passes it off as something new and original. All hip hop artists could potentially be sued for infringement, or perhaps even prosecuted under today's draconian laws. This is an example of how locking up ideas as property doesn't promote the progress of science and the useful arts, but stifles their progress. Locking up ideas as property is just as much a form of censorship as suppressing them.
Copyright was intended to, as the Constitution states, promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive Right to their respective writings and discoveries. The problem is that locking up ideas as property doesn't do that at all. It stifles progress. Besides, all Hollywood and the recording industry make is frivolous entertainment. That bears no resemblance to what was meant by "useful arts". Congress doesn't even consider the copyright clause when lobbyists show up with cash.
Why should an up and coming industry have to prop up one that is obsolete?
"Multinational corporations, ironically styling themselves champions of free information having stolen it themselves..." Look who's talking
Locking up ideas as property is just as much a form of censorship as suppressing them, and this clown is all for that kind of censorship, just like Hollywood and the recording industry.
Copyright ceased to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" a long time ago. It now stifles progress. Locking up ideas as property is indeed a form of censorship. Too bad the whores in Congress do whatever their corporate johns bribe them to, and don't give so much as a passing thought to the purpose of the law.
Casinos are owned and operated by the mafia just as they have always been. They are the only ones getting rich from gambling. They also have legislatures by the cajones in any state that allows casino gambling.
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All hip hop is potentially infringing.
All hip hop music takes samples of copyrighted work and passes it off as something new and original. All hip hop artists could potentially be sued for infringement, or perhaps even prosecuted under today's draconian laws. This is an example of how locking up ideas as property doesn't promote the progress of science and the useful arts, but stifles their progress. Locking up ideas as property is just as much a form of censorship as suppressing them.
Locking up ideas stifles progress
Copyright was intended to, as the Constitution states, promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive Right to their respective writings and discoveries. The problem is that locking up ideas as property doesn't do that at all. It stifles progress. Besides, all Hollywood and the recording industry make is frivolous entertainment. That bears no resemblance to what was meant by "useful arts". Congress doesn't even consider the copyright clause when lobbyists show up with cash.
Print is a dinosaur
Why should an up and coming industry have to prop up one that is obsolete?
"Multinational corporations, ironically styling themselves champions of free information having stolen it themselves..." Look who's talking
Locking up ideas as property is just as much a form of censorship as suppressing them, and this clown is all for that kind of censorship, just like Hollywood and the recording industry.
RFID on students
The company producing the RFID cards will make a mint off of this if they close the sale.
Copyright now stifles progress.
Copyright ceased to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" a long time ago. It now stifles progress. Locking up ideas as property is indeed a form of censorship. Too bad the whores in Congress do whatever their corporate johns bribe them to, and don't give so much as a passing thought to the purpose of the law.
Casinos are still run by the mob.
Casinos are owned and operated by the mafia just as they have always been. They are the only ones getting rich from gambling. They also have legislatures by the cajones in any state that allows casino gambling.