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  • On the post: Can A Moron In A Hurry Tell The Difference Between A Hershey Bar And A Couch?

    Will Sizemore ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2008 @ 07:34pm

    Wait. WHAT!?!?!?!?!?

    Quick, somebody sue me for going off on idiots because that's gotta be copyrighted too!

  • On the post: Moroccan Man Pardoned For Fake Facebook Profile

    Will Sizemore ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2008 @ 08:35pm

    Worrisome?

    "Its good to be the king"

    You have to understand why the individual would have done this. They established that there was no real defamation. They charged him with identity fraud.
    They were right.

    What other possible motives are there?

  • On the post: If The Fashion Industry Doesn't Get Special Copyrights, The Terrorists Will Win

    Will Sizemore ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2008 @ 06:55pm

    The Evil of Copyright

    Copyrights, no matter what the original intent was touted to be, were never really meant to encourage designers, for example, to come up with more innovative designs.

    Copyrights do not make me, as science fiction, more creative. My own desire to be different from what has been published in the past is what drives me to be more creative. If I were to publish a rip-off of another author's work, anyone who would truly READ my work would know it immediately.

    I have a word I use to describe one who uses a roundabout means to serve a personal or political agenda that in and of itself is not strong enough to stand. I call them Politicians. Unfortunately, this is a negative connotation that does a great deal of injustice to the few good politicians in the world, and to the insitition of all legislative offices.

    And copyright law, and the legislators trying to capitalize on the buzzword "terrorism" themselves are dubious in that nations like the US will spend COUNTLESS taxpayer dollars investigating these cases all under the guise of patriotism and in their own small way contributing to the War on Terrorism.

    I have recently begun to pay a great deal of attention to copyright and tradmark lawsuits, specifically with regard to software and operating systems. I beleive that although copyright and trademark is the way that a capitalist can toss out an incomplete product and eternally secure revenue while preventing all 'competition' from following that same path.

    I hate copyright, by the way. I hate it because it is viewed as necessary to secure a fair income for people whose innovations should be rewarded. I also hate it because lawyers and justices use it as a means for securing their own income, by defending large corporations who really do not suffer a great loss of income, if any.

    I truly wonder if in this particular case of the Fashion Industry vs. Terrorists, whether the lawyers or the justices, committees, etc, have any stock in fashion.

    Seriously, has anyone ever looked at the portfolios of the judges who pass these rulings in favor of the corporation?

    Ms. Willett, although I am not a fan of fashion in any way, I was so pleased to read your comments. I would love for you to be called as a witness in this case. I think that your perspective is one of invaluable importance.

    I am increasingly motivated now, to change my major from Computer and Information Sciences with minor in Creative Writing, and I may simply make my own path. I am thinking of law and specifically copyright law; with the intent to reform US Copyright Law.

    For now, I will simply appeal to the opinions of my readers with my creative writings and posts on blogs like this one.