Comments for Copyright Talk http://www.copyrighttalk.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:22:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Archiving in the Computer World by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » Follow up on the Student Plagiarism case http://www.copyrighttalk.com/archiving-in-the-computer-world/#comment-927 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » Follow up on the Student Plagiarism case Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:40:11 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/archiving-in-the-computer-world/#comment-927 [...] on the Student Plagiarism case by Pamela Parker Last year - actually, almost exactly a year ago - I wrote about a lawsuit filed by several students over a school requirement that all papers be submitted to a web-based [...] [...] on the Student Plagiarism case by Pamela Parker Last year - actually, almost exactly a year ago - I wrote about a lawsuit filed by several students over a school requirement that all papers be submitted to a web-based [...]

]]> Comment on Why Stop At Universities? by Christopher http://www.copyrighttalk.com/why-stop-at-universities/#comment-905 Christopher Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:50:17 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/why-stop-at-universities/#comment-905 Copyright laws in relation to printed material are an outdated joke.... Try finding the original author for permission of printed material....most of the time you won't even be able to get into contact with the original publisher, let alone the author.....I'm not going to spend hundreds of hours beating my head up against an impenatrable wall of publishing houses....simply post the article in an unabridged form, state the original author, and it should all be OK.... Copyright exists to protect big business....every one else is confronted with a legal minefield....why should we bother? If the intention is to simply distribute the information and the source is qouted, nobody loses out in the end....I have already paid for my magazine, and the author has already been paid for publishing the article, so who really owns the words?....nobody.... Copyright in the print form is a crock.... Copyright laws in relation to printed material are an outdated joke….

Try finding the original author for permission of printed material….most of the time you won’t even be able to get into contact with the original publisher, let alone the author…..I’m not going to spend hundreds of hours beating my head up against an impenatrable wall of publishing houses….simply post the article in an unabridged form, state the original author, and it should all be OK….

Copyright exists to protect big business….every one else is confronted with a legal minefield….why should we bother? If the intention is to simply distribute the information and the source is qouted, nobody loses out in the end….I have already paid for my magazine, and the author has already been paid for publishing the article, so who really owns the words?….nobody….

Copyright in the print form is a crock….

]]> Comment on Embarrassment by Fair Use by Christopher http://www.copyrighttalk.com/embarrassment-by-fair-use/#comment-904 Christopher Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:39:03 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/embarrassment-by-fair-use/#comment-904 What if you cannot trace the owner of copyrighted material, even though the publication you are drawing from is out of print? Surely, if you post a SOURCE and then place the work up for all to see in an unabridged form, on w ebsite that is not for profit, surely then you are not treading on anyone's toes? I would much rather post something whole and unabridged, stating my source, than simply a rehash of someone elses work passed of as my own....and yet, if I have no direct permission...I am STILL infringeing the law... Madness really......i post articles that are over theirty years old, from publications that are out of print. I'm not plagiarizing anything, and the original author cannot be tracked down in a million years.....the website is not making money, so whats the harm? Seems to me that copyright is WAY out of date to the needs of the internet...it's supposed to be an "information superhighway", but when we get hit with "trafic tickets" like that, it makes you wonder whether copyright isn't just a giant excuse for RESTRICTING information, rather than allowing it's distribution... If you can't track down the original author, is iy not OK sinply to post his/her name as the original author, rather than rehashing the research work of others and calling it your own... I don't like plagiarism.....but copyright is a frustrating exercise in legal nothingness...for the benefit of the legal profession....if your intentions are honest and non-profit...whats the harm? What if you cannot trace the owner of copyrighted material, even though the publication you are drawing from is out of print?

Surely, if you post a SOURCE and then place the work up for all to see in an unabridged form, on w ebsite that is not for profit, surely then you are not treading on anyone’s toes?

I would much rather post something whole and unabridged, stating my source, than simply a rehash of someone elses work passed of as my own….and yet, if I have no direct permission…I am STILL infringeing the law…

Madness really……i post articles that are over theirty years old, from publications that are out of print. I’m not plagiarizing anything, and the original author cannot be tracked down in a million years…..the website is not making money, so whats the harm?

Seems to me that copyright is WAY out of date to the needs of the internet…it’s supposed to be an “information superhighway”, but when we get hit with “trafic tickets” like that, it makes you wonder whether copyright isn’t just a giant excuse for RESTRICTING information, rather than allowing it’s distribution…

If you can’t track down the original author, is iy not OK sinply to post his/her name as the original author, rather than rehashing the research work of others and calling it your own…

I don’t like plagiarism…..but copyright is a frustrating exercise in legal nothingness…for the benefit of the legal profession….if your intentions are honest and non-profit…whats the harm?

]]> Comment on CCC: The Right Idea Not Yet Mature by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » New Tools and Out of Date Rules http://www.copyrighttalk.com/ccc-the-right-idea-not-yet-mature/#comment-693 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » New Tools and Out of Date Rules Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:17:49 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/ccc-the-right-idea-not-yet-mature/#comment-693 [...] the new tools are a some applications the Copyright Clearance Center is playing around with. I haven’t had a chance to do more yet than just take a look, so no [...] [...] the new tools are a some applications the Copyright Clearance Center is playing around with. I haven’t had a chance to do more yet than just take a look, so no [...]

]]> Comment on Why Stop At Universities? by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive http://www.copyrighttalk.com/why-stop-at-universities/#comment-668 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:42:54 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/why-stop-at-universities/#comment-668 [...] places? Anyway, the survey gives yet another reason to laugh out loud and then get outraged at the entertainment industy’s continued efforts to, well, frankly I’m not entirely sure what they’re trying to do. I think the big [...] [...] places? Anyway, the survey gives yet another reason to laugh out loud and then get outraged at the entertainment industy’s continued efforts to, well, frankly I’m not entirely sure what they’re trying to do. I think the big [...]

]]> Comment on A Wacky Wayback Story by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » More Thoughts on Bad Lawsuits http://www.copyrighttalk.com/a-wacky-wayback-story/#comment-659 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » More Thoughts on Bad Lawsuits Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:00:14 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/a-wacky-wayback-story/#comment-659 [...] Thoughts on Bad Lawsuits by Pamela Parker Unlike the case I wrote about yesterday, most copyright lawsuits are filed by writers who allege that another writer has passed off copied [...] [...] Thoughts on Bad Lawsuits by Pamela Parker Unlike the case I wrote about yesterday, most copyright lawsuits are filed by writers who allege that another writer has passed off copied [...]

]]> Comment on Copyright Death by Bork FUck http://www.copyrighttalk.com/copyright-death/#comment-655 Bork FUck Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:46:58 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/copyright-death/#comment-655 shut up logan shut up logan

]]> Comment on Copyright Death by Bork FUck http://www.copyrighttalk.com/copyright-death/#comment-654 Bork FUck Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:45:26 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/copyright-death/#comment-654 this si STUPID this si STUPID

]]> Comment on Smells Fishy To Me by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive http://www.copyrighttalk.com/smells-fishy-to-me/#comment-625 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:34:37 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/smells-fishy-to-me/#comment-625 [...] Pamela Parker Author Cory Doctorow echoes comments I’ve previously made about the difficulty of applying traditional copyright practices to high volume internet based [...] [...] Pamela Parker Author Cory Doctorow echoes comments I’ve previously made about the difficulty of applying traditional copyright practices to high volume internet based [...]

]]> Comment on Are Copying and Sharing the Same Thing? by Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » Licensing by Ignorance http://www.copyrighttalk.com/are-copying-and-sharing-the-same-thing/#comment-610 Copyright Talk » Blog Archive » Licensing by Ignorance Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:52:57 +0000 http://www.copyrighttalk.com/are-copying-and-sharing-the-same-thing/#comment-610 [...] to a potential audience, and perfectly willing to give away music in exchange for exposure (see my earlier post on Samantha Murphy), if a band believes that New West would actually post their music as a [...] [...] to a potential audience, and perfectly willing to give away music in exchange for exposure (see my earlier post on Samantha Murphy), if a band believes that New West would actually post their music as a [...]

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