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Creationists Violating Copyright
The_Rook writes "The Discovery Institute, more a lawyer mill than a scientific institution, copied Harvard University's BioVisions video 'The Inner Life of the Cell,' stripped out Harvard's copyright notice, credits, and narration, inserted their own creationist-friendly narration, and renamed the video 'The Cell As an Automated City.' The new title subtly suggests that a cell is designed rather than evolved."
Harvard was created so that they would be able to copy it. You know part of a bigger plan.
(C)Copyright 4000BC God
All rights reserved
Reproduction other than by the means provided for in your licence agreement is prohibited
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Doesn't it make more sense to believe that Harvard stripped out the creastionist commentary from the video and slapped on a copyright notice? It would be far too complex to edit a Harvard video to add commentary, thus I must go with this simpler explanation and blame Harvard.
God created everything.
Trev - used to be interesting. Honest.
I'll probably go broke from the number of times they'll force me to watch Golden Compass, just to make them unhappy.
*in mr burns voice*
Oooh, a lawsuit from "harvard"
What are they going to do, row us to death?
Oh no, I'm so scared!
...the film was originally intelligently designed. Then it evolved.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Fuck the creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches, ...
every time I think of them, my trigger finger itches,
They want to have their bullshit...taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass!
What to choose, what to choose...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The difference is, that the average downloader is not changing the words a little then claiming the work as their own. Those people are called "rap artists".
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
I don't know. Personally, I never found their point of view worth a whole paragraph of refutation. A few choice sentences of general derision will always suffice.
Isn't it better that they removed the logo?
Otherwise it might appear to some person watching that the ramblings were actually created by harvard.
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
They are obviously blinding themselves to the true nature of the Universe! God didn't create it, we did about 7.2 million years from now! And I can't believe nobodies brought up the instrument of the creation, his noodly appendage himself!
Shh.
Considering that current law states that copyright is valid until 70 years after the author's death, that copyright will expire in 2036.
Well, since Jesus is God, Jesus died when crucified at some time around the year 30, and the copyright law doesn't state that copyrights are reinstated on resurrection, the copyright has expired long ago.Of course, since there's this other person who also died in 1966, the copyright period will probably be extended before it expires.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Dear Slashdot community,
The Discovery Institute would like to thank you for raising the visibility of our organization and our fight for justice. For many years we have fought to enable creation theory in the classroom alongside evolutionary theory. Your efforts have assisted us greatly in getting the word out on our issues. It is important to acknowledge that for too long, Christians have lacked legal representation. Now our law firm 'The Discovery Institute' fights for them in the courtroom. We would like for everyone to think of us as like the MPAA/RIAA, but motivated instead by "heavenly profits".
Sincerely,
Fun. D. Mental
Esquire
Director of Outreach
The Discovery Institute
* disclaimer - I love the potential for satire in this situation but I think darwinian evolution is a seriously flawed theory *
It's like in the Simpsons episode where Xena explains the continuity goofs in Xena, "Whenever you see a continuity mistake, a wizard did it".
Now replace wizard with God and you're set.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Get the DI version. This time give it a narration about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, and name it something like "Free Sex Money" so that everybody downloads it. Credit it to the Descovery Instantoot to make it obvious (at least to DI) where it was taken from. Add a text file to the torrent saying what was done and why.
Since it's making fun of an existing work (whether stolen or not) it's a parody, and so protected as free speech from both Harvard and DI.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
However if your contribution in the lab was as a tech running the experiments that people like the author of TFA designed, I could easily see why you wouldn't catch that link. So your bad there... but hey, awesome job showing yourself to be an ignorant tool who thinks he can argue vaccine science because he once had a summer job washing glassware and running the autoclave in a lab near folks who understand it. Just because the lab where you worked did research that doesn't mean you did.
And it shows.
Let he who has never violated copyright cast the first post.
Oh, too late.