Anybody remember an article on Copyright law

[NL5]

This is a complete longshot, but it was posted on here a while back. It basically said the the theft of Intellectual property can't really be cosidered "stealing".

HELP!!!

Thanks,

NL5

 

[toekramp]

the riaa owns you

 

google it, but I know the idea you are talking about.

Copyright laws are totally different from what they were originally intended to do.

 

[GasX]

probably just a misguided rant from some pre-teen ATOTer after getting an RIAA cease and desist e-mail....

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
probably just a misguided rant from some pre-teen ATOTer after getting an RIAA cease and desist e-mail....

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: SampSon
google it, but I know the idea you are talking about.

Copyright laws are totally different from what they were originally intended to do.

EXACTLY!

I tried googling it already with no luck....

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
probably just a misguided rant from some pre-teen ATOTer after getting an RIAA cease and desist e-mail....

Actually, I believe it was a Law professor or something like that, and it had VERY little to do with the RIAA.

It was very well written, and very thought provoking.

 

There is an article in wired this year about the history and progression of copyright laws and how they went askew.
I'll see if I can dig up the article later.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
probably just a misguided rant from some pre-teen ATOTer after getting an RIAA cease and desist e-mail....

Just buy the cd's that they have you listed as downloading and say it was for backup since you have no cd-burner 😛

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: SampSon
There is an article in wired this year about the history and progression of copyright laws and how they went askew.
I'll see if I can dig up the article later.

Thanks.

 

[JustinSampson]

Is this it?: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48625,00.html

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: JustinSampson
Is this it?: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48625,00.html

YOU RULE!

That's not it, but the paper by Lessig is what I was thinking of!

Thank you so much.

 

[Cerb]

Copyrights *were* there to keep someone from calling something of yours theirs, and to give you the minor protection for afew years, like patents. Now they have become as bad as trade secret laws (which should not exist).

bump. I'd like to see this article.

Here's the idea: we work, and develop in communities. A single person or group having full ownership of ideas slows down any collective progress that can be made. Temporary protection allows the creator to get some benefit from it (sell your book, you get the money), while still allowing the public to then build from that, as both science and arts should work.