Clip from latest Huffington Post blog by Max
Britain is completely on the wrong side of this issue. Copyrights are the public’s rights to help manage the public’s intellectual property. A limited period of time, like 28 years (per the original Constitutional statute), giving individuals monopoly rights over intellectual property is the outer most boundary of time that a society invested in the speech rights and intellectual rights of its people would allow in good conscience. Britain, and it is easy to understand, given the massive cock ups of this Labor government, is allowing themselves to be steered by the copyright cartel just like they allow themselves to be strong armed by the banking, pharmaceutical, and defense industries.
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Good job!!
At least someone is critical of a Bernanke reappointment.. http://tinyurl.com/ljwoxb
I think copyrights greatly restrict not merely expression but healthy criticism, discussion and reflection. 28 years is too long in my view because it is greater than a generation. Shouldn’t children be able to express themselves (and therefor THINK) freely about the cultural influences of their parents? Shouldn’t parents be free to benefit from the perspectives of youth? We are natural organisms and synthetic laws should look to natural patterns for guidance. Copyright monopoly should last less than a natural generation.
I don’t think monopoly rights over intellectual property is ideal, maybe a certain royalty attatched.
To monopolise on anything stifles exponential growth, and is based on greed and the priority on monetary gain over advancement of the idea.
@Max/Stacy/Y’all
Recommendations of books/documentaries on the copyright cartel???
Now theres a topic for PMF. Hmmm…
FUCK IT
Copyright law should be no more than 5 years
How long is Big Pharma allowed to pimp their wares until generics are allowed to takeover?
Use that as precedent…
Another day, & NO CRASH
Oh Well.
Mike
Let’s try this again…
Copyright law should be 5 years or less
(How long do drug patents last? That should be used as a guide)
If you can’t cash in within that time-frame, then you are hoping to bank on Nostalgia… just grow old, decrepit, and DIE already…
The world has no need for your anachronistic ideas after that point…
There is a fundamental dilemma here. On the one hand (or horn) the internet boasts free access to all sorts of information and is understandably popular. On the other, people want to make money out of information – divulge at a price. So how much info is free, how much is owned or costs? If we rule that everyone has a right to own some information – the internet pretty much dies and with it the opportunity to sell and advertise. If we rule that no-one is allowed to own any information, then everyone fears for their privacy and again the internet pretty much dies.
So it comes down to a matter of privilege and influence. If you’re rich and well-placed, you can guard your information and trade. If you’re powerless, you’re ‘free’ to be traded. It’s basically the same old ‘free trade’ – ‘global trade’ fraud. Trade is only free or fair so long as you make the rules in your favour.
Britain can rule in favour of the music industry, but this is just the thin end of the wedge. ‘Big Business’ likes it when it profits from ‘Small Business’ the independent and sole trader – doesn’t like it when others profit where it can’t.
The answer ,of course, is to collectivise, selectively.
Do business among friends, firstly.
Dedo I agree with you. What they are trying to exploit is ideas. Only, there is a superior right of any human to acquire knowledge which supersedes the right of any person to profiteer. It’s only natural for a person to make money from his-her invention, but when it comes to the point that he-she doesn’t permit the circulation of that idea, then that’s a different thing. Imagine if the inventor of the cure for cancer would say “give me x billion euros” or something. It would be blackmail.
The bad thing is that even tho it’s clearly unethical, this is common practice, especially in the fashionable medical field. They say, in defence of torture, that if you think you can save a plane load of people, you have the right to torture a person -innocent or not- to acquire the information you need, but when it comes to save thousands of lives, a company has every right to restrict knowledge, and nobody has any right to utter a word.
The free circulation of ideas is a value we need to defend. In any case, as there is no immaculate conception in the world of ideas, one cannot say an invention is something more or less than a link in the chain of knowledge, and noone should have the right to break this chain.
I think copyright monopolies are necessary so that certain ideas will be developed in the first place. If there were honest communication (such as enforced standards of honesty in advertising) and there were genuine healthy levels of competition in markets, then very short copyright monopolies would suffice. But within the current system, the terms should be based on the particular markets’ ability to reward artists.
My issue with 28 year copyright is, say a teenager is influenced by an album or movie when she is 14. She has her first child when she is 20. When her child is 14, he/she won’t be able to fully comment on that same album or movie if it has 28 year protection. He/she would have to wait until they are 22 years old and their mother is 42 years old before they can fully express themselves regarding that album or movie she enjoyed at 14. The freedom to do so is more important than the profit motive.
People have social needs in part because the perspectives of others help us maintain healthy thinking. It is a matter of mental and cultural health to allow people to freely think, express, and create, thus sharing many different perspectives.
I think as a general measure, no copyright should last such that a child can’t fully comment on work that influenced their parent.
the Keiser is King !!!
all hail the new MAX
The world has no need for your anachronistic ideas after that point…
@Guiseppi:
There is nothing new under the sun? Song of Solomon.
Democratic Fundraiser Charged in Citigroup Fraud http://bit.ly/KLXeW
To give it a personal touch. I wouldn’t be where i am today without the cracking community and I even thanked them for that. I know some very succesfull old potbelly companies who refuse to pay for any software outtof the old nerdish community pact to help each other without any pay.
Even Bill Gates wouldn’t be around if he wasn’t able to steel so much from other nerds and he knows that.
So what England is doing is dumming down the online community and their “Knowledge” exports will diminsh drastically.
If they realy get the bigbrother internet II through maybe pirating over FM digitally will be a solution but hopefully it won’t come that far.
Team Obama
The Journey
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5vkPiCEjjdg/SpNinEr2AeI/AAAAAAAAEWc/STbh2-wFcMg/s1600-h/Deficits_the_Final_Frontier.jpg
RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days http://tinyurl.com/lfg37d
Comment by some dud:
It’s only 1 day per month for the next 12 months.
California is already doing 3 furlough days per month!!!
Rhode Island is in better shape than my corrupt state….
Britain is a bunch of big copyright bullies.
Cutting your internet service for illegal file sharing is like coming in and taking your TV if you watch a pirated vcr. Dumb.
And probably anticompetitive. That’s tying the copyright to the communications service (TV or here, internet). Smells like antitrust violation — where’s the EC on that one?
Plus, England (and a few other EC countries) have this scam: Take an out of copyright 2-D image (like, a painting in the British National Portrait Gallery), and snap a new photo and put it up on the web. Then, wait in the weeds. When someone goes to use the scanned image thinking it’s copyright free (because taking a photo of a 2-d image doesn’t rise to the level of copyright creativity), jump out from behind the bushes and yell “gotcha — new copyright on the photo/scan of the out of copyright image”. This stunt is being pulled on the Wikimedia Commons gallery curator.
Any connection with Lord Mandelson is entirely coincidental:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/mandelson-pledges-to-support-geffen-yacht-dream-200908181990/
@Frances Snoot
RE:Nothing New Under the Sun
BINGO!!!!
However… I am a fair capitalist, and am willing to give good ideas a chance to promulgate into profligate profits
So long as it isn’t longer than the time it takes for my skin to renew itself… (roughly 7 years…)
Copyrights are bull-caca
i.e. feces… excrement… that squishy stuff that is expunged from one’s rectal orifice…
Its official, fat people are dumb.. http://tinyurl.com/mmfoxx
Steady on Guiseppe.
So govt and state food policies are expressly causing mental degradation in upwards of 70% of the population (apart from diabetes etc.).
There’s a relation with Intellectual property righs somewhere..
Check out the end of this interview.
Guest get cut off early as he talks $US down and Gold/Commodities up.
Ooops, sorry, gotta go.
Moving along to some HIDING news stories…….
http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=Kiener%20Sees%20%60All-Time%20Highs%27%20in%20Oil%20Prices%20by%202012&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/v1MKGJO3Rv4E.asf
The guest mentions the second wave of the property crash in US.
@Mini US
Interesting Bloomberg clip indeed. Oil $65 on the low side and $85-$100 on the high he says. Not a problem only of demand and supply but of money – supply constrains. Declining supply of oil he says. Oil will take time to get higher so will get old levels in 2011 -2012.
He’s also saying the same I said in some blog that commedities will become hot because of lost in faith in the Fiat currencies. I put it like where can people else go in the last resort other than commedities? Absolutely agree with him there.
Mmmmm…storage problems with oil he also says.
Leg two of the property meltdown.
Gold is the ultimate investment as money….oep outtof time.
Bloomberg Clip #Oil – Guest get cut off early as he talks $US down and Gold/Commodities up http://tinyurl.com/lcwsnn
Like these cute chinese better than these dumb bitches at cnbc, much mor focused and not so dumb except for the Red head at fox, maybe for other reasons.
@AgeingBabyBoomer
I don’t know who said it earlier in this blog but it is true we will find other ways, the won’t be able to stop it anyways.
I remember the time that internet was still via the standard phone cable, very slow and not so much available yet on the internet.
You had this Black Market in cracked software which I would buy every month, awesome times. These CD’s and later DVD’s where high quality fabric made with nice designs on the cover.
I had my personal dealer for that. You had a whole circuit of people involved in this.
So this could happen a blackmarket in DVD’s with software films etc….they never can stop the cracker community….never!
LORD Mandelson is a trator licking the boots of NWO pricks like Rothschild on Corfu.
Japanese Trade Balance showed that exports dropped by 1.3% last month, but no one seemed to notice http://tinyurl.com/nsy9ht
Economists warn against Nama
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0826/breaking11.htm
WTF! Decline in Japanese exports accelerates http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8221877.stm
FX analysts say Bernanke nomination won’t boost dollar http://link.reuters.com/gan23d
Court Orders $2 Trillion Loan Program Details to be disclosed by the Federal Reserve http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSwaj3khF0w
The U.S. national debt will nearly double over the next 10 years. The White House projected a cumulative $9 trillion deficit between 2010 and 2019.
The spending blitz could push the national debt, now more than $11 trillion, to close to $20 trillion. The debt is the total sum the government owes, while the deficit is the yearly gap between revenues and spending.
Democrats said the country’s fiscal condition was a legacy from former Republican President George W. Bush, who cut taxes while pursuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (What about Obama???)
The White House forecasts a record $1.58 trillion deficit in fiscal 2009, matching the numbers of the CBO, while it shows the deficit at $1.5 trillion in 2010.
The White House has withdrawn a $250 billion “placeholder” budget request, while the CBO estimates that actual TARP outlays this year will be $203 billion less than anticipated.
Estimates show annual deficits staying above $500 billion every year until 2019, compared with a then-record $459 billion last year. By 2019 the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product will rise to 69 percent from 48 percent in 2009.
Drom: White House, CBO debt forecasts challenge Obama http://tinyurl.com/nfb989
This Fox show really is incredible. They’re basically saying that Obama represents a Communist coup.
Are they going to say there’s been an attempted coup, then use the coup attempt as an excuse to bring in martial law?
Investing LIES!! A Catastrophe for People Who Trust Investment Professionals!!! http://tinyurl.com/lhbz96