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WIPO treaty on copyrights, the web, and you
Topic Started: Sep 19 2006, 03:15 AM (128 Views)
Moe
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I wanted to share this with all my internet friends, and all the fanfic writers, graphic artists, poets, etc out here in internet-land. and since i know so many of you fall into this category....

Apparantly, someone in the world thought it would be a brilliant idea to propose a sort of copyright licensing for upwards of FIFTY YEARS to television and internet-related works. Now, television is one thing, but the idea that a company such as livejournal, myspace, and so forth owning YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY only because it is processed via their servers is, to me, not only a gross violation of the first amendment's freedom of speech provisions, but also a terrible suppression of creativity, self-expression, and the free exchange of ideas. And let's be honest - how many of us have read a work of fiction, or seen a work of graphic art, that someone else created online, either via journals or a message board or even an independent website? The idea that the companies that host the data, or even the ISPs who make the transmission of said data possible, owning the intellectual copyright of YOUR OWN WORK is just wrong. So... like all good things in the world, there IS a way to speak out AND to learn more.

Do you want someone else trying to copyright YOUR intellectual property?

More info and so forth there.

Thanks for reading!
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