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Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the opening-the-worm-can dept.

dmabram writes "The online version of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is tackling copyright in the digital age. They are sponsoring a forum where Lawrence Lessig will square off against RIAA executive Matt Oppenheim. Anyone can submit questions, and the best questions or comments will be posted to Lessig and Oppenheim for debate and discussion. I know that the producers understand the importance of this debate, and would love insightful questions." Looks worth tuning in for.

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  1. DVR by ArsonPanda · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better Fire up my Tivo so I can steal this by skipping over the ads!!

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    --I don't want the world, I just want your half.
  2. Valuable questions by NetSettler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone can submit questions, and the best questions or comments will be posted to Lessig and Oppenheim for debate and discussion.

    If I ask a good question, do I get to claim the copyright on it? And how will I enforce payment?

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    Kent M Pitman
    Philosopher, Technologist, Writer

  3. They would have interviewed RMS .. by McAddress · · Score: 5, Funny

    but then they would have had to call it GNU/NewsHour or would that be GNUshour

  4. Civil Disobedience by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Things have gotten so bad with the RIAA now, I almost fear I'll get sued for admitting this, but:

    I sing along with the radio, cds I play, and sometimes...well, I don't *KNOW* the lyrics, so I'll look them up on the internet!

    I can't help it! Honest! It is the Artists!! They made me do it...why, just look at Mick Jagger (ok, bad Idea)...consider Mick Jagger and the Stones in the song "Miss You" with:

    what's them matter man..{something, something} with some Puerto Rican girls just diiieeng to meet-chu. We gonna bring a case of wine {long string of words...I think} like we used to!

    And the woohoo-hooo-hooo is just so damn fun to sing I don't know when I'm over the line with; Copyright Infringment, Public Performance and Wreckless Endangerment and Public Indecency.

    See what happens when you "Start Me Up"(c)(r)(tm) of Microsoft Corp (right?).

    /where's that sarcasm tag in the HTML specs?

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  5. Re:DVR is overkill for skipping ads on PBS. by Robber+Baron · · Score: 2, Funny
    Apparently you've never been subjected to the misery that is a PBS pledge drive.

    Betty White: If you like great PBS programs like "Do Shut Up" and "Shut Your Gob" you'll want to support our pledge drive. If you watch even one second of PBS and don't contribute, you're a theif, a common theif!
    PBS Guy: Okay, take it easy, Betty.
    Betty: Sorry, but these theives make me so mad. You know who you are.... thieves!
    Homer: You're mad, where's my show!?
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    You're using her as bait, Master!

  6. What Mark Twain thought of copywrites: by budalite · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
    - Mark Twain

    They always talk handsomely about the literature of the land....And in the midst of their enthusiasm they turn around and do what they can to discourage it.
    - Mark Twain Speech in Congress, 1906

    I wonder if I can copywrite my own genes? or that cute thing I do...

    Something we'll look back at this all and say 'WTF?'