Love it. -Adi
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]>wrote: > Success > > > http://tlevine.smugmug.com/Shenanigans/21st-birthday/16410903_FiAr2#1234423318_oKhm9-A-LB > > http://tlevine.smugmug.com/Shenanigans/21st-birthday/16410903_FiAr2#1234439525_mzZrG-X2-LB > > Tom > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > After reading Robert Brauneis's paper, I get the impression that Time > > Warner doesn't really have rights to the song but that the ASCAP uses > > fear, uncertainty and doubt to extort royalties for it anyway. > > > > But Good Morning to All is in public domain, so maybe we'll just sing > > that. So maybe it'll go like this > > * Run into the atrium > > * Stand by the fancy text about the atrium's dedication > > * Sing Good Morning to All > > * Simultaneously distribute flyers to tomorrow's lawyers about why > > we're singing Good Morning to All instead of Happy Birthday > > * Potentially eat cake, though I think that will be frowned upon > > * Go elsewhere for further shenanigans > > > > Tom > > > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ben Finney > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thomas Levine <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > A free culture party would be awesome. Having it at the law school > > > > atrium would be more awesome except that it's probably too late to > > > > rent it and that it doesn't seem that you can rent it > > > > (http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Sched/roomres.html#TL). > > > > > > One event at your celebration should be to draw attention to the > > > enclosure of culture by proprietary interests > > > <URL:http://www.unhappybirthday.com/>. > > > > > > Perhaps switch to temporarily taking the copyright ownership of that > > > song seriously, and follow the logic as far as encouraging everyone to > > > take down the details of anyone who attempts or enables others in > > > unauthorised public performance of the work to report them to the > > > copyright authorities. > > > > > > It's very easy to see what's wrong with copyright when it restricts > > > something that's so clearly part of our shared culture. Whenever I've > > > seen Benjamin Mako Hill engage an audience with that, it's always both > > > entertained and opened some eyes to the need for reforming the > copyright > > > regime. > > > > > > -- > > > \ “It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of > | > > > `\ certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.” | > > > _o__) —Bertrand Russell, _Free Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 > | > > > Ben Finney > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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