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Patry Copyright Blog Closed

Posted by kdawson on from the pecked-to-death-by-ducks dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "William Patry, noted copyright expert and Google's top copyright lawyer, has decided to close his personal blog. (For no reason that he has explained, the archives are gone too.) Ordinarily, that wouldn't be very newsworthy, but that little blog has made a lot of news, outing the ACTA treaty and discussing lots of other important pending legislation. Mr. Patry gives two reasons for the closure: his personal views were being attributed to Google, and the current trends in copyright law are too depressing. Though I am not the only one to have done so, as someone who has contributed to that misunderstanding by listing his credentials without a disclaimer, I would like to publicly apologize to him. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to reverse the depressing trends in copyright law that I'm not doing already."

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  1. Re:Self-censorship? by kaos07 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm Australian. Our conservative party is called "The Liberal Party". I have no idea what that quote means.

  2. That's it - I've had enough! by TheModelEskimo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm shutting down my blog about the finer points of the GNU GPL in protest of Mr. Patry's shutting down of his blog about copyright.

    I'm sorry it had to come to this. And to all my readers: I WONT be back.

  3. Backwards and upside-down by johndmartiniii · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's sort of like the drains going the opposite way and Summer being cold, right?

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    1. Re:Backwards and upside-down by n3tcat · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's sort of like the drains going the opposite way and Summer being cold, right?

      I just had a mental image of a bunch of republicans holding hands and dancing in circles.

    2. Re:Backwards and upside-down by h4rm0ny · · Score: 3, Funny

      I just had a mental image of a bunch of republicans holding hands and dancing in circles.

      I always picture them doing that anyway. In the backrooms of the Whitehouse. At midnight. In Robes. Around a pentagram.

      You mean they don't?

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    3. Re:Backwards and upside-down by lilomar · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have that back to front.

      Duh. He said he was in Australia!
      /ducks

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  4. Re:Self-censorship? by jamesswift · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a European who has seen Fox News I think Liberal means believing Stalin was The MAN! and Conservative means being persecuted for driving.

    *shrugs*

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  5. Sounds like... by rasteri · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... The patry's over. (I'm sorry)

  6. Re:Self-censorship? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    USians look like pink elephants in multi-coloured spandex wrap.

  7. Re:Self-censorship? by Ahnteis · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see adjective and noun... but no verb form.

    "Why don't you just liberal yourself man!"

    "I was walking down the hallway and all of a sudden I liberalled right in front of her. I've never been so embarrassed!"

    "I liberal; therefore I am."

    ??