There has been another copyright hubbub this week with a photographer, Lane Hartwell, had one or her photos appear in a parody video that got to be popular. She got mad, asked them to remove it, when they were flip with her she got a lawyer and filed a “notice and takedown” under the DMCA [...]
I say lock them up and throw away the bloody key. Are there no poor houses? Wha.. oh, this is one, well that is no excuse. Edit: It gets worse, now you are supposed to hide from Carolers as you cower in fear in your own home.
I am passionate about public domain. It is going away. It is being eroded by our bought out Congress who are constantly giving away extensions of copyright and trademark terms without getting anything for the public back in return. They are betraying us in favor those who give them campaign contributions, understandable, but ultimately unacceptable [...]
I don’t hate copyrights but it is my belief that they are they are being abused beyond all recognition of what copyright was originally supposed to be about. Here is a good editorial from the Guardian on the topic.
Read this morning that the Smithsonian is selling off the nation’s attic to Showtime. This is madness. It is already hard enough to make documentaries thanks to the insane restrictions on use of copyrighted works, now our the rights to film our heritage is being sold off, next up the big National Archives/HBO deal. I [...]
I really think we are starting to strangle on copyrights and patents in America. The nonsense of it all is becoming enormous, you cannot publish important historical works, inventors cannot bring products to the market without battalions of lawyers around them and a whole industry is arising just to sue people who actually make things. [...]