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WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright
An anonymous reader writes "It seems the nasty 'Broadcast Treaty' is rearing its head again in the WIPO talks. This would give a new copyright to what is uncopyrighted or out of copyright material to anyone who broadcasts the material. It essentially re-ups the copyright — not to the original copyright holder, but to the broadcaster, without any contract to the original holder."
Little? In comment view, each click opens the one higher up in the hierarchy. You can't even position the cursor with the mouse, as it steals focus from the editing field; nor click a link, because it opens up the preceding comment first, and only after the entire thread is open can you follow links, since middlemouse doesn't work either.
Yes, editing would be nice. Even Wikia can give you versioned comments, with the edits displayed and reviewable by anyone, even if you're not allowed to delete your comments (you can blank them, but the underlying text can still be viewed in the earlier versions).
As for grammar stuff, I never notice that, my brain autocorrects most errors as I read, so I really need to look for those misplaced commas and stuff. :)
Hyperbole: I use it liberally!