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Internet Archive Loses Copyright Fight
tiltowait writes "As reported on LISNews.com, the Internet Archive has lost a copyright lawsuit which challenged the Congressional lengthening of copyright terms and conditions. The ruling has implications for abandonware and other copyright-eligible materials that have no active owner. Brewster Kahle plans to appeal the decision." The decision is available. As we noted in an earlier story, the Eldred case challenged the length of copyright expansion, this one challenged the breadth, and so far, this one is going about as well as the Eldred case did. Stanford has an overview of the case.
Another win for big business over the little guy! Go Disney!
oh, canada?
Hey, most guys who write software aren't very active. Why should geeks be forced onto treadmills to keep their copyrights?
You know what?
I prefer to co-locate with a type-III dyson bubble and an array of ion cannons. mmm unlimited free power to annhilate any and all threats to my right to webhost anything I want...
an army of android warriors fighting for the free exchange of data by exterminating huma-- err n/m
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
You sir, are the reason why we should have placed a cap on Slashdot user registration at 800,000.
Software abandons you!
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
As a long-time consumer of abandonware, this is horrible news. If the product is not available for sale, I would aruge that common sense dictates that the public sharing of the product hurts nobody as the copyright is not being actively protected! The persecution of Abandonware when the programme is still available for purchase as part of a 'legacy' series is understandable, but otherwise it is rediculous.
Besides, the ability to play the games that I once oggled over in PC Gamber but couldn't afford is really quite something.
Oh and before you mark this REDUNDANT know that Staplrh lost rights to this original post by abandoning it after posting. I've now assumed copyright to it...
All of my thread brothers and sisters are wrong. The correct answer is: In Korea only old people can be legally archived.
Internet Archive had copied my copyrighted material without permission. I don't think it should have the right to copy anything without asking first.
Thanks for the information -- I had no idea.
I also had no idea that Las Vegas was in California.
Why, so that he posts as Anonymous Coward, as we do? :-)
Because "First Post" was automatically copywrited the first time it was used, does this mean that you have obtained the rights to copy first posts and are granting it to all for free? Or perhaps you were the original first poster? :-)
See? Microsoft isn't a monopoly. The compete with themselves!!!
I need to back up the internet archive...
I might also need a little faster connection and a few other things