Tag Archives: copyright

Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib

June 15, 2008 – 9:59 pm

The MPAA is always going on about how they are losing tons of money in the theaters because of pirates. However a CNN article recently pointed out that
Since the first weekend of May, domestic grosses total $1.46 billion, up 4.6 percent from 2007’s, according to Media By Numbers. Factoring in higher ticket prices, actual movie [...]

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A Message to a Friend Explaining My View on Intellectual Property

June 11, 2008 – 10:03 pm

I think that IP is one of the largest issues going and to make it worse, people don’t know anything about it. That’s what makes it so dangerous. Corporations are slowly but surely gathering more and more power over IP, many people think that this is good for businesses because they can protect their interests, [...]

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2012 Olympic Games

October 12, 2007 – 1:05 pm

This message was not brought to you by the real Olympic Games, but is instead a demonstration of the free speech which the folks who run Olympic Games are trying to kill. Why should you care? David Edgar puts it pretty well:
By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various [...]

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