--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
[snip] > The "Mickey Mouse Law" or what is known as the Digital Millennium > Copyright Act (DMCA) took away a lot of the "fair use" rights. Some > still remain. It really depends on the rights holder and many of the > rights holders are not the author whose article you are quoting but the > big corporation they work for. Depending on the corporation they can > act just like Nazis or be wise and note that if you are posting the > article (even the full one) that you are doing some advertising for > them. Mostly I post a "teaser" or a few lines of the article and then > the link to the full article. Now note there are some sites, mainly > political that allow you to post the full article as long as you give > credit and a link. Some will just blatantly tell you to post the > article on your blog or group. If I had a website in which people were doing a lot of copying and pasting from it I would only mind if I had advertising and they didn't also copy and paste the advertising as, often, websites make money from the click-through on the advertising. So, I suppose that would mean that if I were copying an article to FFL I would want to use "Rich-Text Editor (Beta). I'd also want the copier to provide a link to my website. > > Copyrights and patents for that matter have gotten a little out of > hand. The DMCA adding ridiculous lifespans to copyrights. That's why > we call it the "Mickey Mouse Law" because it was Disney who lobbied for > the changes because their copyright was about to expire on Mickey > Mouse. It used to be that you were granted a copyright for 27 years > and then you could renew once. > > The problem with patents has been mainly with software patents which > should have never been granted. They were because the Patent Office > simply didn't understand them. If you took a bunch of programmers, > isolated them individually and gave them the problem which the software > patent was supposed to solve, the majority would probably come up with > the same solution. IOW, these patents were granted for just the way > that software works. All those patents should be revoked. > > It's all about greed and control by the rich. I tell you time and time > again, the rich are the root of the problem. > > Oh yes, I do hold copyrights and I was involved in securing patents for > a software company even those I was opposed to the idea (the board of > directors wanted it). >
