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The Best of The Worst Hollow Copyright Claims (medium.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the worst-practices dept.

tiltowait writes: Slashdot readers should be familiar with most if not all of these, but the list of 20 Hollow Copyright Claims is a somber reminder of the current sorry state of intellectual property laws in the United States--as anyone who's encountered a paywall or a takedown notice (or remembers Slashdot's run-in with Scientology) can attest. It serves as a call to arms that we not lose sight of the benefits to sharing knowledge.

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  1. The mouse will soon push to make them last longer by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The mouse will soon push to make them last longer and they also want the right to move stuff in to the vault and take off the market just to have them come back out years later.

  2. The Worst Hollow Copyright Claim: by penguinoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Author's lifetime plus 70 years"

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    1. Re:The Worst Hollow Copyright Claim: by JoshuaZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Would you actually not produce things if people would eventually in some sane amount of time get access to do what they want with your works? More to the point, how do you think things would be if Shakespeare was still copyrighted, or Jane Austen, or Shelley's Frankenstein? The point of copyright is to have a long enough period to encourage people to make their own works. If you really aren't comfortable with people maybe playing with your ideas 70 years after you've died, then that shows if anything that you've absorbed too many of the ideas of very long copyright times, and I daresay you are the exception rather than the rule even given that.

    2. Re:The Worst Hollow Copyright Claim: by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm an author, and I have no problem with this. In fact, I encourage it. Why should a generation find a means to profit off my work, changing it, manipulating it, doing whatever they want with it, soon after I pass? What a disgrace that could be.

      Parent is totally right. After all, the copyright clause does read:

      To promote the Agrandizement of Creative Egos, by securing for extreme Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

  3. If you're opposed to our current IP law by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you've already lost by calling it "Intellectual Property". It's always nice to pick the terms in a debate...

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  4. Re:What about the infection nature of the GPL? by Dcnjoe60 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are trolling, of course, but the GPL is a license to use the code that somebody else created. One is free to use is as long as they abide by the terms. That is no different than using BSD, MIT or even proprietary code. In short, if you don't want to abide by the copyright owners terms, then don't use their code.