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Copyright laws have got to change!

posted 5/3/2009 1:48:13 AM |

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Just watched Lawrence Lessig give this talk.

http://blip.tv/file/1937322

This is something that is going to be a very big issue.

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SpiritOrnery	May 3 @ 9:56AM
	Never heard the end. Too boring. Sorry. Maybe if he had video with it to keep me interested. I would rather watch artistic videos, lol!

asnet	May 3 @ 10:31AM
	no waits for approval. lessig advocates theft and impoverishment of creative people.

electricman	May 3 @ 2:55PM
	Enter the Communists.. Not on my watch Buddy....

mark0978	May 3 @ 3:38PM
	So Electricman, those 3 videos you've posted here make you a criminal, glad to see you understand.....

electricman	May 3 @ 4:30PM
	Um no I understand completely...What your friend is advocating is bigger government and the loss of the rights of the people to make choices for themselves over how their intellectual property is used...and as far as those three video's are concerned, I'm not responsible for them being on the internet. All I have done is draw attention to their existence there. What people do with them is their business. The underlying message your friend is advocating is Communism short and sweet...

mark0978	May 3 @ 8:30PM
	No, electricman you don't get it. The very act of you ever watching them on your computer resulted in a copy being made on your computer which is currently ILLEGAL under copyright law. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Why is it that someone that creates a work today should continue making money off of that creation in perpetuity? What is copyright for? To make people fabulously wealthy or to encourage creative works.? Key laws regulating U.S. copyrights and their key effects include: * Copyright Act of 1790 - established U.S. copyright with term of 14 years with 14-year renewal * Copyright Act of 1909 - extended term to 28 years with 28-year renewal * Copyright Act of 1976 - extended term to either 75 years or life of author plus 50 years; extended copyright to unpublished works; preempted state copyright laws; codified much copyright doctrine that had originated in case law Without a public, there is no point in copyright. An author cannot make a living writing books or music for one person (unless that person is very rich). Yet we have gone time and again away from the point of copyright. How in the world can it benefit the public to allow someone an exclusive right to something that is intangible for their entire life + 50 years? How does that encourage creativity? No one else is afforded this right, you go to your job and work your hours, you get paid. The person that paid you uses the output of your labor for the next n years, but they don't pay you for that work every day for the next n years. Copyrights last too long, and in the current digital age, the very law itself is flawed because it outlaws the physical making of a copy of the work which prevents you from even viewing this post or that movie. Copyrights don't need to be abolished, but they need to take into account the value of the public on their very existence. Patents which are used to build machinery are only granted 20 years and they expire with NO chance for renewal precisely because we saw the fact that a perpetual patent on an idea is stifling to future progress for the public. Ideas are not even tangible, and currently copyrights lock up ideas for years and years and years. Walt Disney made his first movies on the back of works that had passed into the public domain. Snow White, Steamboat Willie, Cinderella, all of those were his take on stories and music that had they been copyrighted could have prevented one of the largest content creators in the country from even being started. It might be wrong for me to make copies of the latest hits on the radio and sell those to other people pocketing the funds from the sales and depriving the creator from enjoying the income from their work, but in the same way, it is wrong for them to prevent other people from deriving new works from their creations. If you actually watched the video you would understand that this is something that isn't as cut and dried as "Not on my watch". But ignorance and stupidity are never in short supply.

ttomtarr	May 3 @ 8:48PM
	That's what he thinks. Why not write a blog about what you think? Showing yoursel is what blogging is all about.

ceecee1952	May 4 @ 12:23AM
	One needs a bit of patience to get to the guts of the video. Thank-you for sharing. Copyright is a huge digital issue and has ramification as it tries to balance between protecting the creative person and allowing for public benefit. This video also explains it and might help. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo ty for the post

misschoos	May 4 @ 11:20AM
	I'm with Tom and Spirit - It was too boring to listen to and I'd rather hear you tell what it was about.

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