Why people don't get copyright
Copyright is an outdated model for protecting IP but
copyright for all the DMCA blow hard speak is still the weakest (and yet most often used) way to protect intellectual property or creative works.
DMCA is trying to make patents out of copyrights where any reproduction of an original represents copyright infringement.
It does not.
See the post below I wrote in response to ridiculous arguments on Ars Technica about how copyright is soooo patent-y these days. Im pissed at this point enough to educate people who are too lazy to even understand the law but want to throw non-existent laws in my face.
By the way my response below has been sent via registered mail to the US copyright office and any quoting of the following text is a copyright infringement which I will pursue vigorously.
Copyright (C) me.
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ok fools here's the real deal.
Copyright law is exactly what it says.
The right to copy a printed medium in its originally printed and copyrighted form.
that's why..still folloowing along class?
Its called c-o-p-y-r-i-g-h-t.
The right to copy a printed piece of paper.
We are talking about printing press laws.
And by the way the US copyright office allows anyone to copyright a work without even sending it to the copyright office they can just SAY copyright so and so and put the (C) after it and its a (potentially) legal writ. Again go and learn about copyright fools!
So we move on to the reality.
If I hear a piece of music and lay down some tracks or my wife does a great job of painting a Monet in her studio. Its A-O-K
Because we aren't "copying" a printed piece of material for the intent of passing it off as the original even if we reproduce it in public.
Copyright has and always will be the weakest form of protection a work can have. If you doubt me, read a book. Reading is not outlawed yet.
If you don't believe it then visit at least the US copyright office website. It will tell you how weak the protection is.
Its not weak by accident. Its weak because its intended to be weak and its an obsolete basic printing press argument. DMCA tries to turn copyright into patent.
A copyright is NOT a patent. It does NOT protect anyone from anything except the verbatim copying of a "copyrighted" document in its original form.
It does not protect transcription by ear or performance or recording at all.
Get a clue.
copyright for all the DMCA blow hard speak is still the weakest (and yet most often used) way to protect intellectual property or creative works.
DMCA is trying to make patents out of copyrights where any reproduction of an original represents copyright infringement.
It does not.
See the post below I wrote in response to ridiculous arguments on Ars Technica about how copyright is soooo patent-y these days. Im pissed at this point enough to educate people who are too lazy to even understand the law but want to throw non-existent laws in my face.
By the way my response below has been sent via registered mail to the US copyright office and any quoting of the following text is a copyright infringement which I will pursue vigorously.
Copyright (C) me.
---------quote
ok fools here's the real deal.
Copyright law is exactly what it says.
The right to copy a printed medium in its originally printed and copyrighted form.
that's why..still folloowing along class?
Its called c-o-p-y-r-i-g-h-t.
The right to copy a printed piece of paper.
We are talking about printing press laws.
And by the way the US copyright office allows anyone to copyright a work without even sending it to the copyright office they can just SAY copyright so and so and put the (C) after it and its a (potentially) legal writ. Again go and learn about copyright fools!
So we move on to the reality.
If I hear a piece of music and lay down some tracks or my wife does a great job of painting a Monet in her studio. Its A-O-K
Because we aren't "copying" a printed piece of material for the intent of passing it off as the original even if we reproduce it in public.
Copyright has and always will be the weakest form of protection a work can have. If you doubt me, read a book. Reading is not outlawed yet.
If you don't believe it then visit at least the US copyright office website. It will tell you how weak the protection is.
Its not weak by accident. Its weak because its intended to be weak and its an obsolete basic printing press argument. DMCA tries to turn copyright into patent.
A copyright is NOT a patent. It does NOT protect anyone from anything except the verbatim copying of a "copyrighted" document in its original form.
It does not protect transcription by ear or performance or recording at all.
Get a clue.
posted by tal at 3:43 AM
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