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Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

x3 sent us a link to an article running on InfoWorld that talks intelligently about intellectual property and the public domain. Its an extremely well written piece summing up what many readers of this site probably feel about the subject.

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  1. How about somebody *alive*? by sam_handelman · · Score: 5, Funny

    John Lennon and Janis Joplin are "happy" that a new generation is listening to their music

    Nice choice of examples.

    There are many musicians that have expressed this sentiment, and not via Ouija board. I'm sure that John Lennon and Jani Joplin WOULD be happy to have their music swapped on people's computers, but lets not attribute to the dead what they never ever said.

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  2. Re:Interesting.. by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... as far as music (which is held by many to be the "universal language") ...

    And here I thought it was Esperanto.

    [Ba-dum-ching!]

    Sorry... couldn't resist. It was just too... "there".

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  3. That's right.... by hackwrench · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they want their property, they can come and rip it out of my brain!
    Just make sure they file an Affadavit describing what brain cellls they expect to find it in, but they should expect to find a fight on their hands.

  4. Re:Just a bit off. by Theom · · Score: 1, Funny

    RTFC(onstitution)

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  5. And in the News by Herkum01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the News, Webster has copyrighted the English language, from now on all news and comments on slashdot will be posted only in Pig Latin.

    Isthay eallyray uckssay!