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Article 19

If anyone thought there would be a mass persecution of alleged "infringers", that would be a bit naive. The Malicious Minds behind all this know full well there would be a public backlash, or at the...

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Religion

This whole thing is a bit like a MPAA/RIAA Religion (through the USTR mouthpiece), concocted in the "land of the free", and like usual, the new converts are even more fanatical and hard-line than the...

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Re:

Do as I say! Not as I do.

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Another DMCA Fix

If we're amending the DMCA anyway, what absolutely needs to be fixed is the take-down system, in the sense that you have, under penalty of perjury, need to have a good-faith believe that the work you...

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CETA / ACTA

Don't forget that North America also includes Canada, and right now two things are being sneaked through: 1. CETA - includes various IPR proposals that are not in the publics best interest: pharma...

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Interesting tidbit...

Most people watch TV in their living rooms using traditional cable or satellite options. In fact, [b]more than 95 percent of Americans get their information[/b] and entertainment that way That's what...

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Berne Art. 35 para 2

"(2) Any country may denounce this Act by notification addressed to the Director General. Such denunciation shall constitute also denunciation of all earlier Acts and shall affect only the country...

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Article 12

pr0n.tw All Our Pr0n Belong To Everyone!

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Article 11

It's all relative; you can even argue that p2p-filesharing could be legal under the above-quoted rules; the "normal exploitation" of a work would be offering it for sale in a store, having it play in a...

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NewTube

It's obvious YouTube has been compromised. We need a new one. So maybe not "NewTube"... but what is going to be the "next" YouTube and how are we going to prevent the (c) industry to get a little bit...

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Scan

Everyone seems to have forgotten that when I use my scanner to make a digital copy from an 1880s magazine, itself long in the public domain, the resulting digital file apparently is under a brand new...

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Simple.

It's very simple... YOU wouldn't be able to make any money off your creation, or nothing more than pocket change, so MPAA claims fair use. The MPAA on the other hand can make tons of money with their...

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The Pinball Arcade

There is a similar issue with "The Pinball Arcade" on XBoX 360 - the publisher Crave Entertainment went bankrupt and now the developer Farsight needs to get the rights back through the bankruptcy judge...

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Article 6

If any change is made to rules regarding "fixations", it should also be explicitly stated that the expiration of the copyright to the fixation trumps any other right, i.e. a copyright in the lyrics...

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Relevancy

One thing that irks me is the amount of attention that is given to this marketing ploy. Just ignore it. There are more important things than some MPAA list.

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Sheeple

The problem is that the majority of VOTERS is still the sheeple (those born when electric typewriters were considered high-tech and before) and they care zero about copyright and know even less about...

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Special 404 or something? :)

"Personal electronic sites are only allowed to put news owned by that person, and are not allowed to 'quote', 'gather' or summarise information from press organisations or government websites," I can't...

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Soccer

This is also a well-known term used in soccer.It's about time "creative people" get the same treatment as "innovative people" 20 year patent, 20 year copyright. That's how long you have to monetize...

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Presidential Appointee

If things go like that, perhaps (and I know it won't happen) we'll find a copyright reformist at the helm. Trump isn't exactly popular with the Copyright MAFIAA...

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"Compromise"

If every time you come back and look for a new "compromise" then it's just a ratcheting system moving the equilibrium point further and further away FROM the public's interests TO the "rightsholders'"...

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