| |
|
10. juni 2003
|
|
Copyright fraud
If you're interested in the battle between fair use and copyright law, you should read this article by George Ziemann: Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Yeah, a few authors got paraded out to make their statements, supported heavily by the music, literature and movie creating, licensing and publishing communities, to argue that a longer term of protection will provide authors a greater creative incentive.
The authors were lying out their asses. To everyone.
If they work for a major label, the "copyright interest groups," as you put it, then the authors don't own their copyrights. The labels do. If they don't already have a good contract, you can extend copyright protection for a million years and it won't get that signed artist an extra dime. The authors have been systematically stripped of their copyrights and then forced to tell Congress how extending their copyright life would benefit them.
Pure unadulterated bullshit. It all assumes the author owns the copyright, which is the fundamental flaw to all of this arguing in reference to the recording industry.
That is exactly the problem.
10:07:10 AM 
|
|
Real loss of artifacts
Remember the stories about the countless artifacts allegedly lost from the Museum of Baghdad? As I have noted earlier, those news stories were grossly exaggarated. But of course the rebuttals have received far less attention than the original story.
However, here is a real story about the loss of priceless artifacts, and it didn't require the chaos of war or looters, just a serious administrative fuckup at the University of Toronto.
In late April, workers at the Scarborough campus cleared out a storage area in an underground tunnel that administrators said was unsafe.
Several locked cages in the tunnel held 280 boxes of pottery, stone tools and other items once used by native people and colonists in the Markham and Pickering area.
The artefacts dated as far back as the 15th century and are the last vestiges of sites that have since been paved over by developers.
Several centuries of original remains of lost cultures, all dumped in the garbage.
9:49:50 AM
|
|
The article that was deleted
Here is a Guardian article explaining why the article containing the Wolfowitz misquote was deleted.
It concluded a week in which the Guardian apologised to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, for locating him at a meeting he did not attend. It has not been the best of weeks.
No kidding. That is what happens when you're too ideologically eager for something to be true.
I preserved the original article here.
6:18:52 AM
|
|
|
© Copyright 2003 Jan Haugland.
Last update: 01.07.2003; 04:32:49.
|
|
|
