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The Tyranny of Copyright?

Posted by michael on from the stop-repressing-me dept.

Pinky3 writes "The Sunday New York Times Magazine has a long article entitled The Tyranny of Copyright? Views of both supporters of CopyLeft (Lessig and Zittrain) and Copyright (Ginsberg and Goldstein) are laid out. The article constrasts the cultural commons to the 'permission culture" and covers the unintended consequences of various US laws passed long ago." Dear NYT editors: "Copy Left" really shouldn't have a space in it. Thanks.

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  1. No comments after 5 minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe they are still reading it...

    Oh yeah they can't.... registration required, cookies required, receiving tons of spam required.

    1. Re:No comments after 5 minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Fuck you then fucking moderators

  2. Great Article. I love Copyleft. by EmCeeHawking · · Score: -1, Troll

    God forbid that anyone actually be allowed to keep or control the fruits of their labor.

    Eliminating any and all incentive to create is an excellent idea. Encouraging theft of others' work is an amazing policy and we should encourage this practice wholesale.

    But copyleft does not go far enough. I believe we should criminalize the creative process in the first place. If there is no creation or production, then the evil Capitalists will have nothing to control with their Good Ol' Boy's network, and will lose the means of keeping the po' man down.

    Marx would be proud, copyleft supporters. Remember: solidarity will make us strong, but sending millions off to the gulag and starving millions more will only make us stronger.

  3. Re:Derivative works by jizmonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lessig isn't a doctor of anything. He has a J.D. just like any other American lawyer but no lawyers actually call themselves "doctor."

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  4. Ludicrous editorializing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Dear NYT editors: 'Copy Left' really shouldn't have a space in it. Thanks."

    Don't like it, get your own newspaper, publish it for 100 years, gain huge amount of respect, then write your own articles about copyright.

    Why do these dickweed submitters get to make their little ninny comments?

  5. Re:no copyrights... no NYT registration by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 1, Troll
    Those who object shouldn't enable a system by putting up with it. Find an alternative and patronize that instead.

    It's called a newsstand, Bunky. And it's outside, where it's cold, and it costs 50 cents and you get a whole bunch of stories you don't want to read and your hands get dirty from the cheap ink in the newsprint.

    ...and for that vast majority of the population born before 1975 who remember these newsstands, being able to search for and read a current NYT article on a screen in our living room with our feet up for FREE is a daily source of glee and wonder. All in exchange for my e-mail address and zipcode (or whatever it was, I registered back in, like '94, I don't even remember...)? Hoop Jumping? You call that Hoop Jumping? How are you going to feel when they join the WSJ et. al. and begin charging for their content? (At least you won't have to worry then about blocking ads, eh?)

    Honestly! Kids these days...