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p2pnet.net News:- Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow agrees the RIAA’s latest video epic, “is such a steaming pile that it desperately needs to be remixed”.
But the video wasn’t the only steaming pile.
Yesterday we ran a post on the flic, together with a letter EDUCAUSE vp Mark Luker apparently sent to various US college presidents.
Among other things:
EDUCAUSE and the American Council on Education (ACE) have been working for several years with college and university leaders, other higher education associations, the RIAA, and the Motion Picture Association of America to address the consequences of illegal file sharing,� stated Luker, going on:
Recently, members of Congress have asked the higher education community to actively support measures to address this problem.
ACE is bringing this video, titled “Campus Downloading,” to the attention of college and university presidents. You and the senior leadership on your campus might consider using the video during student orientation sessions, linking to it when students log on to campus accounts, or broadcasting it on student life television channels.
I appreciate the efforts to address illegal file sharing you have already made on your campus and urge you to add this new resource to your strategy.
Like, the presidents of some of America’s most senior teaching institutions (doubling as corporate music and movie industry sales and enforcement units, courtesy of parents and state government who are paying for it) could care less what Luker thinks?
We thought it’d be excellent source material and saved a copy of Campus Downloading for creative purposes.
On it, as Boing Boing points out with notes, are treasures such as:
Derek: I work 40 hours a week to pay legal bills… The weight on my mind, knowing for the rest of my life, having to explain why I’m a felon.
[Like this fell out of the sky, like the RIAA didn’t decide to ruin this kid’s life]
Look, it’s simple: Unless you get permission if the music you find on the web is owned by someone else, you can’t share it, download it or copy it, period.
[Except for fair use, which is especially available to scholars]
And in most cases if it’s free, it’s not legal.
[Except for the 160 million Creative Commons works that have been created in the last three years]
Making copies for your friends, giving it to them to copy…is just as illegal as downlaoding it.
[In other words, making a mix-tape is illegal]
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Boing Boing - RIAA propaganda movie for students in desperate need of remix , August 22, 2006
steaming pile - RIAA file sharing video, August 23, 2006
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August 24th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
If copywright laws had not been turned into the black sludge it is, just think what the common pool would look like, a large part of the problems we have now would never have happened. The major players would be contibuting to the common good of this country, instead the current laws makes parasites out of copywright holders, no DRM on the commons, reset copywright to default like the founders fathers had it. I believe the time frame was described as limited. In short: 1710 act established the principles of authors’ ownership of copyright and a fixed term of protection of copyrighted works (fourteen years, and renewable for fourteen more if the author was alive upon expiration). The statute prevented a monopoly on the part of the booksellers and created a “public domain” for literature by limiting terms of copyright and by ensuring that once a work was purchased the copyright owner no longer had control over its use. or publisher. )
These people had the forsite to see what was coming, our goverment set there and let this happen, I think the focus of all the sites should includ the revision of copywright law to resemble the original document
August 24th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
The one thing any college should remember is that the RIAA also files fraudulant complaints and sues people who didn’t downnload. Should the college decide to assist in suits against mis-identified persons, the colllege as well can be sued. Of course, no one beleives that innocent people are being sued and no one will stand up for those persons while the RIAA collects money from the innocent. Fraudulant suits for profit. That is what it is when the wrong person was targeted. That is illegal.