Sean DALY wrote:
So if I understand you, let's abolish copyright, and that way
Microsoft, Adobe et.al. can just chuck their bloated old code and
incorporate formerly free software into their binaries? And charge an
arm and a leg for it as well.
No thanks. I prefer the GPL, which derives its power from copyright
law - the concept that creators decide how their work may be used.
I support "intellectual property" law reform, but this is really
throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Some reasonably good points
Basically echoing this:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
Note: PPUK are NOT PPSE:
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/18/rms-talks-pirate-party-uk/
P.S. I'm a parent, and I am glad copyright law provides me with some
recourse should my teenager be dumb enough to upload a bad photo to a
public internet site.
Ahaha. Yeah this wasn't a great real life example to promote copyright
law to me though.
Firstly, you should remember that the exclusive rights belong to your
teenager, not you. In practise, though you should remember this it is
not likely to be an issue.
Copyright law provides some recourse if they upload a bad pictures that
they took themselves to, say flickr.
If another teenager takes a bad picture of your teenager and posts it on
flickr. You and your teenager have pretty much no recourse under
traditional copyright law.
It may depend a little bit on where the photos are taken - football
stadiums try and use EULA's on tickets to claim copyright over all
In my humble opinion, I don't think you should be able to claim any
exclusive rights under copyright, of photos of you just because you are
in a photo.
For more information about photographers rights see
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/2009/05/14/uk-photographers-rights-v2/
I'm afraid though that next, you're going to
tell me that children should be free of parental control and report
their parents to the NKVD if they aren't permitted to use RapidShare
or MEGAUPLOAD
??? This is completely unrelated? :S
Cheers,
Tim
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