Comments on: Pro-Copyright Propaganda Enters US Classrooms

By: joe

joe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:34:10 +0000

say I had a kid, and he/she came home and told me something like this, I would so write a nice little letter threatening legal action for the corruption of a minor, visit the leadership and so on for helping spread lies.

By: in Poland

in Poland — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:25:29 +0000

we have a joke
Two students come across a piece of paper.
“What’s this?”
“I don’t know, but let’s xerox it just in case”

Re:
““Think First, Copy Later,”

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Thu, 28 May 2009 20:35:53 +0000

[...] has been pushing a copyright curriculum on schools. Tragically, unsuspecting schools have been using the pure propaganda put out by the Copyright Alliance as if it were some sort of impartial and accurate educational material on copyright. It’s [...]

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By: jake

jake — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:22:33 +0000

“kids should be taught to think critically so they can make up their own minds instead of being brainwashed with pro (or anti) copyright propaganda.”

this is a tad hypocritical on the part of torrent freak methinks

By: Tauron7

Tauron7 — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:26:50 +0000

Nobody learns anything in schools in the US anyway. They can barely read, so who cares about copyright?

By: Wwhaty

Wwhaty — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:32:57 +0000

There used to be a fake piratebay that tried to trick people in thinking it was the real thing but they asked money, so I guess the copyright mafia are using that as a clever ploy to lie to kids and at the same time not lie by simply suggesting the fake and the real one are the same.

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Remix (Conclusion) « — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:45:35 +0000

[...] hard to understand why Lessig has become the target of so much corporate vitriol, when he is one of the few thinkers on IP who actually supports the idea of copyright. Perhaps [...]

By: Sendaii

Sendaii — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:30 +0000

Also, just to make this clear, I am pro-copyright. I DO believe that artists have the right to protect what they create. But I do not support the draconian system of “share my stuff and I sue”. I prefer the system of Creative Commons, where the artist can actually keep control of what they create and set the terms of the contract, and the consumer can reuse and remix without fear of being crucified by a money-hungry corporation. It’s a win-win situation.

By: Sendaii

Sendaii — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:05:57 +0000

Heh, the BPI already tried this on in schools over here. It quickly stopped when it had no effect whatsoever, and students actually pirated more music. It was quite funny, actually, the videos potrayed Universal Muisc as some sort of benevolent company who worked only for the good and treated artists fairly xD

By: Reasoned Meat

Reasoned Meat — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:36:10 +0000

AuthorWhoLikesToPayBills, I’m not worried about where my next meal is going to come from, but I’m a published author, musician and software engineer. Copyright law gives me the authority to *try* to license my non-work-for-hire in such a way that generates revenue for me, and I’m free to try to hold out for as much as the market will bear. But I don’t feel *entitled* to get paid top dollar for my work, and even when I’m getting a lot of money coming in for my work, I’ve always felt very lucky and was never been lulled into thinking I was going to be able to sustain it exclusively depend on that income. So, some of my work I voluntarily release under open licenses which encourage relatively unfettered distribution and innovative new uses of my work. Piracy, if you will. Don’t get this confused with surrendering copyright. I still retain copyright. I’m just not into holding my work for ransom, only doling it out to the highest bidders. Yes this means I don’t get paid as much as I might be able to squeeze out of some sucker on eBay, but that’s not why I created those things, and I don’t go around whining that people who didn’t pay that much somehow “stole” profits from me. People will like what I make or they won’t. They’ll buy it or borrow it or steal it or imitate it or ignore it because it sucks. That’s life. I go on creating and improving the quality of what I produce so that people will pay attention to it. Most of my income now comes from either my non-creative work or from my creative work-for-hire (things which I really do surrender the copyright to), which isn’t tied to direct distribution but rather to what amounts to novel derivative works and value-add services that people are more than willing to pay for. My liberally licensed work (the good stuff at least) gives me credibility and has helped land me jobs and clients. Also, my wife’s a full-time writer. She does tech, nonfiction, and fiction, under all kinds of business arrangements. She succeeds in this environment because she’s very pragmatic and knows how to self-promote and generate revenue without resorting to copyright-based extortion. She also knows that not every creative act guarantees income, even when it’s successfully held for ransom without anyone “pirating” it. The major publishing house handling her next work is counting on selling X number of copies, and they’ll do it, too. They’ll rake in way more than the paltry advance they’re giving her and her agent. This is the new reality. Adapt, work with it, exploit the open distribution channels, get more creative, make content and services people will still pay for … or go get a McJob. It’s your choice.

By: PJ

PJ — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:39:23 +0000

Like the other poster, “Intelligent Design” was the first thing that came to mind when I read this.

By: Think about it

Think about it — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:26:30 +0000

@ 180 May 26, 2009 at 04:33 by AuthorWhoLikesToPayBills

If someone has led you to believe that people are downloading books, then you better do some more research. The only books being downloaded en masse are textbooks and you should be blaming the schools for forcing students to purchase them since they were already given tax money to do that.

By: Think about it

Think about it — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:21:42 +0000

@ 178 May 26, 2009 at 00:45 by AuthorWhoLikesToPayBills

If you feel that way then maybe you should stop pirating and use bittorrent legally the way millions of people do every day.

By: Dante.Xaiver

Dante.Xaiver — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:38:22 +0000

@180 you cant tell me your denying the fact filesharing inceases awareness for a product and prmotes it and if people liek it they will spend their money on it

More and more artist are seeing this and are capitalizing on it.

These small presses and book publishers should be capitalizing on whats in front of them now use the new means of promotion to their advantage.

If the small guys scan adapt faster then the big guys then that will prove bigger isnt always better.