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A Demonstration of How Copyright is Being Used in America

August 1, 2007 – 8:42 am

Some prisoners tried to get themselves out of jail by abusing copyright. They ended up in trouble of course, but one of the things they got in trouble for was extortion. It is hard to imagine how that might stick considering the prisoners are using the same system that “patent holders” are using on a [...]

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Where is Capitalism Anyway

July 2, 2007 – 9:33 am

There’s a hard case for saying capitalism still exists in America. Calling our market a free one is like saying a cage-free chicken is honestly free. The irony is that it is the market leaders (often ones who clamor for deregulation) are the ones that are steering America’s market towards a feudal system.
The linchpin in [...]

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Look What That Wacky
DMCA is Doing Now!

February 5, 2007 – 4:01 am

A little while back I mentioned that you can’t copyright an art form, but you can copyright a performance… here is a great example of how that is being used.
If you have you ever been to a wedding where someone danced the “Electric Slide” and you videotaped it Ric Silver might have a lawsuit waiting [...]

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Sand Animation

February 1, 2007 – 3:24 pm

This is kind of neat. In this video Ferenc Cakó gives a kind of performance by sculpting sand on a projector, called sand animation… but it’s much more impressive than it sounds. Some of the images he creates are beautiful. It is interesting too that each image is only temporary (in physical form anyway). Which [...]

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