Tag Archives: intellectual property

Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib

June 15, 2008 – 9:59 pm

And an Ars Technica article points out that US box office doing its biggest year of business ever in 2007, growing 5.4 percent over 2006 and bringing in $9.63 billionSo the question is, how much longer are we going to let the MPAA concoct a “truth” that allows them to push new crappy laws that erode our freedoms?

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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. IP is used to create artificial monopolies, like MLB saying people can’t disseminate the facts (which are currently not part of IP) of a baseball without authorization.

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Like Free Speech? The Entertainment Instdustry Doesn’t.

June 8, 2008 – 8:56 am

Follow the money: Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) Top four campaign contributions for 2006: Time Warner $21,000 News Corp $15,000 Sony Corp of America $14,000 Walt Disney Co $13,550 Top two Industries: TV/Movies/Music $181,050 Lawyers/Law Firms $114,200 I suggest everyone take a moment and write to the folks in charge to let them know this whole things stinks.

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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. David Edgar puts it pretty well: By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various organisations and individuals are contributing to an increased commodification and thus privatisation of materials previously agreed to be in the public domain.

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