Comments on: MPAA corrupts US Scouts

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:55:53 +0000

This story will educate kids that restricting people’s use to do certain things that, by law, is ok is wrong.

http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html

Give it to as many parents and schools you know.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:46:25 +0000

The most recent copyright decision of the Canadian supreme court was a 5-4 decision. The decision was delayed while a new judge was appointed as they otherwise had a 4-4 stalemate.

See “A perspective on the freelance journalism case from CLUE: Canada’s Association for Open Source” for some details.
http://www.cluecan.ca/node/439

I think any suggestion that Copyright law can be taught to people younger than University age is both a joke and an insult to anyone who actually works in this area of technology law. Maybe with some future clarified and simplified copyright law it might be possible, but with the current law it is not.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:58:50 +0000

The proper name for the above post.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:53:13 +0000

“You put two USA lawyers in opposing sides of any infringement lawsuit and they can’t agree on how to interpret the law and its frequently contradictory jurisprudence. They can’t even agree on what infringement is.”

True also for judges. A judge in the San Juan Federal District court determined that music a publisher infringed a second music publisher’s rights by simply having the second publisher’s songs on their catalog, illegally, as was argued by the second publisher’s lawyer.

Also one same lawyer cannt agree what is infringement with himself.

As fate would have it, both publisheres in the above case were sued by us (my family) for exactly the same reason, having our songs illegally in their catalog. Sort of stealing our songs. Strangely, in our case, running parallel to the first case, the judge decided that having songs illegally in a catalog is not infringement, even though plainly it is and is also a crime, appropiation of a right or “itellectual property”.

Strangely, the lawyer who argued in the first case that having another publisher’s (his client) songs in a a catalog was infringement took the opposite view in our case, and the judge agreed with the lawyer’s now reversed position. As a result we obtained no damages award for the theft of hundreds of our songs.

How do you explain this weird set of judicial circumstances and what is infringement to a kid?

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:33:40 +0000

I expect that Hollywood has also infiltrated the public schools and slipped their propaganda into the so called “educational” media that many schools are using these days.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:16:05 +0000

this makes me sick……

i cant believe this is being accepted with open arms and without some sort of resistance. I hate to think that this is only beginning…..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:14:09 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/ygajtl [wikipedia .png picture link]

yeah, last week they learned how to be good citizens in helping old grandmoms over the street or other valueable doings for the value of the community they life in.

This week they must learn how to be a good consumer and how to serve some greedy individuals instead of the society as a whole!