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  • On Patents : The Word of Notch
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    If you own a software patent, you should feel bad.
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  • Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs
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    Certainly we wouldn't want to listen to their other suggestions, which would see us broaden the definition of "fair use" and, horrifically, reduce copyright terms back to merely a lifetime or even less. Not only would such an act deprive our great-great-grandchildren of their birthright, but it would surely choke off creativity to the dark ages of the 18th and 19th centuries, a desperately lean time for art in which we had to make do with mere scribblers such as Wordsworth, Swift, Richardson, Defoe, Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Dickens, and Keats.
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  • No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
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    Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.
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  • [IP] more on Research under fire?
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    "Putting roadblocks in front of knowledge doesn't stop it from coming about -- it moves offshore."
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  • IPac - Blog
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    "Senator Hatch is expected to chair a new subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Ugh."
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