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Compulsory licensing. Shorter copyright terms. These are the reasonable responses. In politics, you've got to define the playing field if you want to win. If
by waterlesscloud 15y ago
Compulsory licensing. Shorter copyright terms. These are the reasonable responses.
In politics, you've got to define the playing field if you want to win. If you let the big copyright holders do all the defining, we get more of what we've gotten. We need a different viewpoint to balance things out.
- 1010011010 15y agoIt's time to not just resist further expansion of copyright and copyright enforcement, but to push back. * Reduce copyright terms to the original 14 years. * Retroactively. * Make copyright non-renewable * Require registration of works with the copyright office * Assess an annual fee proportional to revenue earned from the copyrighted work * Provide for stiff penalties for asserting copyright over works you do not hold the copyright to. * Affirm that public domain works can never be copyrighted. Make them fight on those terms.
- mindslight 15y agoThe content cartels would be quite alright with these terms (they'd of course fight them in the short term, though). Their primary goal is to revert us to the days of receive-only information display terminals (TV). To actually push back: * A right to Internet access (RAND terms, no 'identity'-based blacklisting by government or ISP) * A right to personal computing devices (and require unlockable bootloaders) * Decriminalization of anything copyright related, civil penalties only. * A right for one's computing infrastructure to stay intact throughout court proceedings. (Seizing someone's servers gags them without due process).
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