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Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces
derekmead writes: The most controversial parts of SOPA, an anti-piracy bill defeated in 2012 after a massive public outcry, may end up becoming de facto law after all, depending on the outcome in an obscure case that is working its way through the legal system without anyone noticing.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Next week, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in ClearCorrect Operating, LLC v. International Trade Commission, a case that could give an obscure federal agency the power to force ISPs to block websites. In January, The Verge reported that this very legal strategy is already being considered by the Motion Picture Association of America, as evidenced by a leaked document from the WikiLeaks Sony dump.
Copyright has no clothes is how the saying goes.
Perpetual copyright - and make no mistake it is that by extension after extension - robs our culture of rich works that never were. If copyright was a sane term like 20 years then after those 20 years new authors could tell new stories in those universes and receive their own 20 year copyright on their flavors. But, no, better to let the tapestry rot away for a few pennies more a year.
Get a free book on the issues here: The Public Domain.
Shh.
When you have a past president saying:
You should know you're fucked.
The only fiduciary interest these guys have is their own, and your politics are irrevocably for sale.
Your interests don't fucking matter, unless you have enough money to make a large campaign donation and pay for lobbyists.
When money == speech, if you don't have money you don't have speech, and your government doesn't give a crap about you.
America has been an oligarchy for a long time, and it's only getting worse. Why do you think they let the MPAA write laws like SOPA in the first place?
Because that's who paid for them.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Now if someone was to film this hypothetical murder.. which would be longer, the time in prison or the length of the copyright?
That's dopey. You've got to get information from places other than pro-life websites.
But even if you use the numbers cited by the pro-life websites (and cited NO WHERE ELSE), you'll see that live births outnumber abortions by at least 6-1. If you use census data for births, you'll see that it's more like 10-1. And that's if you accept the total number of black abortions the pro-life websites have pulled right outta their ass.
You are welcome on my lawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Getting stuck with a child you can't afford to raise because some moralizing asshole thinks you should have it but then says they shouldn't be paying to help raise it ... that's a fucking life changing decision.
You want to prevent abortions, you fucking help raise the children.
Don't want to do that, shut the fuck up, because it has nothing to do with you.
If your whiny asshole of a god disagrees, he can fucking help pay to raise the kid.
Fuck you. Fuck your god. Fuck your stupid opinion about what other people should do, or your self righteous moralizing about how they shouldn't have sex.
You're a fucking moron. I hope you refrain from having children, the world doesn't need children of idiots like you.
Keep your stupidity to yourself, and stop pretending like your opinion about someone else's body and life mean a fucking thing.