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Jonathan Zittrain On The Spiderweb of Copyright Law
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, takes an unusual approach to critiquing copyright in this Legal Affairs article. He explains with an analogy to the bizarre patchwork of United States tax codes a reason that (in the words of one of Zittrain's colleagues) "all the cyberprofs hate copyright." It goes beyond simple indignation that current copyright laws often grant seemingly unfair monopoly powers, and into the tangled minutia of the laws themselves.
A new study released by the Gartner Group has revealed that articles about spiderweb copyright laws are slightly more enjoyable than punching yourself repeatedly in the balls. However, the self testes pugilist society has issued a rebuttal. "nad punching is still a growing activity" said one source. "and it appeals to all age groups".
Girl Scouts who sing "Puff, the Magic Dragon" owe royalties
Oh of course, the record label needs all the money they can get to keep suing kazaa users.
Why are a group of little girls singing about marijuana in the first place?
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THEN CAME FILE SWAPPING ON THE NET and the all-purpose computers attached to it. With the right software, individuals could copy digital content perfectly, quickly, and cheaply--and the presence of a (C) symbol did little to deter them from doing so.
In theory, of course, Title 17 applies to everyone. Even the Sony case of 1984 included a token individual defendant, a VCR owner who was the alleged direct infringer. But no one demanded that he pay damages or change his behavior. More recently the Recording Industry Association of America has sought the identities of individuals who use Internet file-trading services and has brought (and settled) suits against college students alleged to be organizing file-swapping circles within their university intranets.
Of course, they know the REAL pirates now! Those damn girl scouts singing puff the magic dragon without paying! Those poor artists.. oh wait, those poor record company execs/shareholders! Oh and for those who still think the RIAA are going to sue everyone who ever opened a kazaa client (Hi Mike!)..
The recording industry is not going to sue the tens of thousands of Americans who engage in these practices. But it hopes to make an example of a few users to add teeth to the infringement warnings that file-swapping services send to their customers--and to pressure those services to pressure their customers to stop copying files.
destroy the business of "paper mills" or "digital paper mills". As such these actions likely do decrease the marketability of the work either directly or indirectly. As such these actions likely do decrease the marketability of the work either directly or indirectly.
:) Destroying the market for selling the paper to cheaters! You win a cookie for that one!
LOL! What a beautifully twisted analysis
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The little tyke would run screaming, "Mom! Mom! Teddy Ruxin's posessed!"
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At this website They have shockwave games for the kids to play!
Help the weasel (how ironic!) protect the city from pirates and pirated software and prevent the deep freeze!
The funniest point is that there is no goal to the game at all, you keep going until you lose. So you do your best to protect the city from pirated software and software pirates, but eventually, you will lose and the pirates take over.
How true! To bad the BSA can't take their own advice!
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit