copyright
The Pirate Bay Circus
Submitted by a thing on Sat, 2006-06-03 00:40. copyright piracy pirate bay pirate party* The Pirate Bay Circus...
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Copyright (C) 2006 Alfred M. Szmidt
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* The Pirate Bay Circus...
Anyone following the news surely has heard about the raid[1] against the `Pirate Bay'[2] in Sweden. A lot of finger pointing is going on as to who ordered who to order the Swedish police to seize servers (including servers that aren't related to the `Pirate Bay'[3]), detain people, and other quite disturbing things like requiring the legal counselor from the `Pirate Bay' to leave a DNA sample[4].
Copyright is sheep\'s clothing: A rebuttal of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Mozart
Submitted by Dr.Altaica on Fri, 2005-09-30 07:39. copyrightCopyright, Intellectual Property and Mozart
Published by Prosario_2000 on 2005/6/1 (215 reads)
Copyright, Intellectual Property and Mozart
Submitted by prosario_2000 on Wed, 2005-06-01 06:30. copyright intellectual property mozartCopyright has a reason for being. In principle, no one should be against copyright. It is a matter for social justice to some extent within capitalist relations of production.
Copyright was born when the printing press began to exist. It was a very important step with respect to diffusion of ideas and works which was completely unprecedented in history. Copyright in some cases was a kind of censorship, but it eventually became the means by which an author was paid for commercial use of his or her work. In that way, stationaries and companies which published those works gave the author the respective share for the profit.
Today\'s big corporations which own practically the vast majority of the media today, have actually convinced the public that Copyright is actually \"intellectual property\", and that one \"owns\" an expression thanks to Copyright the same way one owns a house or a car. People, usually lawyers, get shocked when it is argued that this view is completely false. People suppose that the phrase \"intellectual property\" began with copyright and/or patents. In reality it was not until the half of the XXth century that copyright began to be treated in such a way. The phrase \"intellectual property\" was invented in the United Nations\' World Intellectual property Organization in 1967. Originally Copyright and Patents were completely dissociated, and had their own history and their own areas of law.
