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.

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Re:Too lazy to click? Read it here!

[AndyFewt]

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.

Re:TIme to start over, folks

[macdaddy357]

Oh yes! Teddy Ruxpin. That was a great toy. You could put Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols into your little brother's bear, and make Teddy sing Anarchy In the UK ... "I am an anti-christ, and I am an anarchist! Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it. I wanna destroy!"

The little tyke would run screaming, "Mom! Mom! Teddy Ruxin's posessed!"

BSA poisoning the minds of the children

[rworne]

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!