Rick Falkvinge: This week’s collective action against the PIPA and SOPA bills in the United States was unprecedented and mighty. But have you noticed that we’re always on the defensive?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by maxkeiser| 5 Comments
  • It must be made absolutely clear that the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare time; it regulates commercial, intent-to-profit activity only. Specifically, file sharing is always legal.
  • Free sampling. There must be exceptions that make it legal to create mashups and remixes. Quotation rights, like those that exist for text, must be extended to sound and video.
  • Digital Restrictions Management should preferably be outlawed, as it is a type of fraud nullifying consumer and citizen rights, but at least, it must always be legal to circumvent.
  • The baseline commercial copyright monopoly is shortened to a reasonable five years from publication, extendable to twenty years through registration of the work in a copyright monopoly database.
  • The public domain must be strengthened.
  • Net neutrality must be guaranteed.
  • Levies on blank media are outlawed.
  • Overall, it must always be clear where the line goes; “the courts will sort it out” areas are not acceptable and tantamount to outlawing.
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5 Responses to Rick Falkvinge: This week’s collective action against the PIPA and SOPA bills in the United States was unprecedented and mighty. But have you noticed that we’re always on the defensive?

  1. gold bullet | January 22, 2012 at 10:50 pm |

    This man is with Nigel Farage the smartest European politician in Europe, full stop!

    Falkvinge is 100% spot on re: copyright.

    I am proud to be a supporter of the Pirate Party and proud to be on the right side in The Great Copyright War of the 21st Century.

  2. James T | January 22, 2012 at 10:57 pm |

    This is very very wise.
    If we let the fight be a never ending series of defenses against SOPA 2013 then PIPA 2013 then SOPA 2014 etc . . , the bastards have a better chance of winning.

  3. angel | January 22, 2012 at 11:27 pm |

    First Megaupload, now FileSonic, Who’s next?

  4. Hegelian Dialectic | January 23, 2012 at 11:15 am |

    My Root Cause Analysis suggests that the entry point to the resolution of 99 &44/100% of these types of issues is Ron Paul for president. Get those fuckers on the run by eliminating monetary influence in government, I say.
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