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Too Quick to Copyright
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:20:01 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:52:26 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU> Subject: Too Quick to Copyright To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> A quick, compelling read... -jlh --- http://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/news/mazzone_legtimes_2003-11-17.pdf Too Quick to Copyright by Jason Mazzone [Brooklyn Law School] Companies cheat the law and the public by claiming ownership over too much stuff. [...] Copyright law gives corporations an irresistible urge to claim ownership, however spurious, in everything. The Copyright Act provides no penalty for falsely claiming ownership in public domain materials, and there is no reward for catching this form of cheating. So corporations stick copyright notices everywhere. And while the U.S. Copyright Office registers copyrighted works, there is no official registry for works belonging to the public. [...] Congress should amend the Copyright Act to make actionable false claims to copyright in the same way that consumers may sue businesses for false advertising. [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Lorenzo Hall http://pobox.com/~joehall/ Graduate Student blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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