My copyrights produce to me annually a good deal more money than I have any use for. But those children of mine have use for that. I can take care of myself as long as I live. I know half a dozen trades, and I can invent a half a dozen more. I can get … Continue reading Mark Twain, via TechDirt.
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Johanna Blakely on Free Culture, Fashion, and CentOS
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf [I'll start this by reiterating that these are my own thoughts, and have nothing whatever to do with Red Hat.] This presentation is great overview of the counterintuitive influence of intellectual rights laws on the fashion industry. It's also cogent argument against the fiction that innovation only happens in the context of property. It's … Continue reading Johanna Blakely on Free Culture, Fashion, and CentOS
Copyright Creates a Nation of Criminals
John Tehranian calculates his total copyright violation liability: $12.5 million a day.
What better way could there be to create a nation of constant lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own laws? And what better way to instill contempt than to hand out rights so broad that most Americans simply find them absurd?[Ars Technica]
a technology job is no excuse 