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EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights
Hugh Pickens writes "In a few weeks, tens of thousands of creative people will make their yearly pilgrimage to Nevada's Black Rock desert for Burning Man, an annual art event and temporary community celebrating radical self expression, self-reliance, creativity and freedom, but EFF reports that the event's Terms and Conditions include 'a remarkable bit of legal sleight-of-hand.' As soon as 'any third party displays or disseminates' your photos or videos in a manner that the Burning Man Organization (BMO) doesn't like, those photos or videos become the property of the BMO. BMO's Terms and Conditions also limits your own rights to use your own photos and videos on any public websites obliging you to take down any photos to which BMO objects, for any reason; and forbidding you from allowing anyone else to reuse your photos. This 'we automatically own all your stuff' magic appears to be creative lawyering intended to allow the BMO to use the streamlined 'notice and takedown' process enshrined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to quickly remove photos from the Internet giving BMO the power of fast and easy online censorship. 'Burning Man strives to celebrate our individuality, creativity and free spirit,' writes Corynne McSherry. 'Unfortunately, the fine print on the tickets doesn't live up to that aspiration.'"
Sounds like (witch) terrorist talk to me!
Are you denying us our (God-given right) national security requirement to (conduct a witch hunt?) investigate this event for evidence of child molestation?
If they have nothing to hide they should not be ashamed of having their pictures published! This is a public venue and there is no such thing as privacy at a public venue!
You have to think about the children! You should (let my self-righteous ego and moral outrage govern your actions) do less thinking and more FEELING!
PS: I wanted the text in (parens) to be formatted strikethrough but slash won't let me do it. Read it as such.
Not a public venue. It's very much a private venue. What part of leased property don't you comprehend?
In fact, we're looking at you now.... should have the /. user database hacked shortly. We'll be in your machine shortly. Better delete that child pR0n now.....
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