On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Carcharoth<carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville > Heiskanen<cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Carcharoth wrote: >>> >>> Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public >>> domain material, running through their minds all the time. >> >> I hope you will forgive me. >> >> I know that is likely to be a "brain fart" of the type >> that I personally suffer from more than most, but I >> did smile at the thought of "freeing public domain >> material". >> >> :-D > > :-) > > Wording was deliberate. The point being postulated is that the NPG are > imprisoning the PD material. >
That's pretty mild compared to Jussi-Ville's evocative language: "trying to 'Dred Scott' works already escaped into PD 'back south' into Copyright Protected dominion" Since this is a UK issue, though, maybe our inflammatory rhetoric should use the tropes of imperialism. Of course, sooner or later the rhetoric of copyright politics all ends in the same place: http://ideas.4brad.com/hitler-tries-dmca-takedown _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
