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Why Creativity Needs Shorter Copyright Terms
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| In response to a tweet of mine about shortening
| copyright to stimulate creativity, someone
| questioned the logic. It's an important point, so
| it seems useful to do some thinking out loud on the
| subject.
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| If we don't, one of two things will happen. Either
| we will fail to realise the full creative potential
| of computing, or else the younger generation of
| artists will simply ignore the law. Either is
| clearly unsatisfactory. What is needed is a
| copyright regime that is balanced. That is far from
| being the case today. As the media industry (sic)
| ratchets up copyright terms again and again,
| creation has become subservient to the corporation,
| and the creators are cut off from their past - and
| hence future.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-creativity-needs-shorter-copyright.html
Google Digital Library Plan Opposed by German Chancellor
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| Isn't this astonishing? I thought "the goal" of
| copyright was to promote the spread and growth of
| human creativity. Now it appears "the goal" is to
| protect copyright itself. This reminds of
| government school advocates who say they "believe
| in public school"; who oppose any attempt to reform
| or privatize public school because it might
| threaten public schooling--when the goal of public
| schools is supposed to be education.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001731
Recent:
Two More Pirate Bay Appeal Judges Accused of Bias
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| Earlier this week TorrentFreak reported that there
| had been objections over one of the proposed lay
| judges set for the Pirate Bay appeal. Now there are
| yet more claims of possible bias, this time with two
| of the main judges who have both been members of pro-
| copyright groups.
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http://torrentfreak.com/two-more-pirate-bay-appeal-judges-accused-of-bias-090925/
Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence
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| In August, Dutch anti-piracy outfit
| BREIN won its case against The Pirate
| Bay, and the court ordered the
| defendants to block access to Dutch
| visitors. The case was appealed today
| and rightly so. It appears that the
| evidence presented by BREIN was faked in
| an attempt to mislead the court.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-pirates-try-to-nail-the-pirate-bay-with-faked-evidence-091008/
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