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Unconstitutional Copyrights?
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| That effort has led me to revisit copyright’s constitutional foundations. I
| find them very shaky, indeed.
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http://techliberation.com/2009/07/29/unconstitutional-copyrights/
RIAA's War on Sharing Begins
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| Words matter, which is why the RIAA has always framed copyright infringement
| in terms of "piracy". But it has a big problem: most people call
| it "sharing"; and as everyone was told by their mother, it's good to share.
|
| [...]
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| Got that? P2P sharing isn't *real* sharing, because it's not sharing with
| your friends; this is *evil* sharing because it's bad to share with stranger.
| Apparently.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/riaas-war-on-sharing-begins.html
Recent:
How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software
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| The bullying of the copyright industry in Sweden inspired the launch of the
| first political party whose platform is to reduce copyright restrictions: the
| Pirate Party. Its platform includes the prohibition of Digital Restrictions
| Management, legalization of noncommercial sharing of published works, and
| shortening of copyright for commercial use to a five-year period. Five years
| after publication, any published work would go into the public domain.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
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| In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free
| Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's
| blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (PDF) — 4
| pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an
| organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying,
| redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of
| having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias'
| against the record companies.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241&from=rss
GNU Generation: Calling all pre-university students
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| GNU Generation is a new project sponsored by the Free Software Foundation to
| involve high school age pre-university students (approximately ages 13-18) in
| free software.
|
| [...]
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| Both programming and non-programming projects are available, and several
| projects can accommodate many different skill levels, so this is an ideal
| opportunity for new users of GNU/Linux to get involved.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnugeneration
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