False Copyright Claims

FreetoCopy writes "Teenagers downloading music may not be the worst copyright offenders. See this item (available for download in PDF file with free registration) about the growing problem of copyfraud — in which publishers, archives, and distributors make false claims of copyright to shut down free expression. From the paper: 'Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare's plays, Beethoven's piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet's Water Lilies, and even the US Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors of microfilmed versions of historical newspapers assert copyright ownership. These false copyright claims, which are often accompanied by threatened litigation for reproducing a work without the owner's permission, result in users seeking licenses and paying fees to reproduce works that are free for everyone to use...'"

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Re:No, you cannot have Fair Use. Not Yours.

[dedtr9]

I'm sorry, the copy right symbol (C)© is copyright me. All rights reserved. Under penalty of law. Do no open before Xmas. ©©

Offtopic, irrelevant, inconsequential, and lame

[thc69]

I'm not going to bother arguing your political point. It falls on its own.

How about your tagline, though? Are you mental?

Sisko > Picard > Kirk > Archer > * > Janeway

More like
Picard > Archer > Kirk > Janeway > * > Sisko
And while we're at it, might as well compare the series too:
TNG > Voyager > Enterprise > TOS > Movies > Early DS9 > Soap opera DS9

Janeway would rate higher than Kirk if she didn't discard so many chances to get home, such as the episode I saw the other day where they were all abducted onto a ship whose transporter uses artificial wormhole technology to beam people 10 light years and had all kinds of other cool technology...she and Tuvok managed to kick their asses but ended up giving them back their ship without even studying the technology, let alone keeping it which would really have been well within the bounds of justice...it would have been easy to write in some bit of plot to find technology on that ship for getting home faster, and in the meantime they could have had a second ship to help defend themselves...

(Maybe I should wear glasses. And put tape on the nose piece. And wear a pocket protector.)