The Glade 4.0

Fun times.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201009 ... 1016.shtml

Lots of good stuff in there, if you take the time to dig through it all.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm going to have to look those books up. If I find that neither of them is copyrighted, I might actually read them.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Well, one of the issues is that the constitution is in conflict with itself. One of the original provisions of the constitution is "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Regardless that current copyright law goes far beyond that intent, if copyright does infringe on free speech, then the first ammendent is in conflict with the copyright clause. However, ammendments being what they are, they tend to supercede that which went before them.

It's not exactly a simple issue.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm not even commenting on the substance of the arguments. I only read the blurb I found on their website, so far. In which the book is described as proposing that copyright is not necessary to encourage intellectual property creation.

Thus, if the book is, itself, copyrighted, then the authors are a bunch of hypocrites that I have no need to pay attention to, because they don't buy the **** they're writing.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I have a similar reaction whenever William Gibson goes on a spiel about how great "remixing", etc. is. I wonder how great he would find it if someone remixed some of his copyrighted novels.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Heheh, sure enough: It's copyrighted.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko