Hollywood, the recording industry, and the cell phone companies are trying to hold technology back and in the process doing a disservice to the American consumer. Time to get with the times and accept that these industries must adapt or die.
Tag Archives: copyright
Crony Hollywood really wants the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, And they don’t want you to know about it.
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, the freedom of the Internet is under assault from crony industry and governments. It’s about control. It is about the reining in of information. It is about restricting innovators and protecting dinosaur business models.
Kim Dotcom of Megaupload launches attack on a White House captured by Hollywood.
Former Senator Chris Dodd (Joe Biden’s best friend) is now head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Dotcom (that is his last name) thinks that the White House and Hollywood are colluding to take down Megaupload and in the process seeking to deal a blow to the encryption community worldwide. Both Hollywood and the White House don’t want you to have any anonymity on the Internet. Governments and legacy media both fear encryption. For the average person encryption is freedom.
Copyright is a government sanctioned monopoly, not a natural right.
There are very good arguments, both for and against copyright. Our founders thought that such rights were vital to encourage innovation and creative exploration.
Fix Copyright in the USA. It Was Never Meant to be a Way to Entrench the Already Powerful.
Copyright laws in this country are absurd and amount to little more than givaways to the entertainment industry.
Hollywood Kills a Congressional Policy Paper on Copyright Reform, “Went Ballistic.”
The Motion Picture Association of America led by chief lobbyist, former Senator Chris Dodd, killed (it is denied officialy) a paper presented by the Republican Study Committee last Friday, which challenged long held views on copyright.
Your right to buy and sell the goods you own may be under assault – due to “copyright.”
The Supreme Court will decide a case this year which stems from an a dispute between an entrepreneur who bought text books overseas at lower cost than they were in the states, shipped them back to the States, and then resold them for less than the publisher.
Copyright Czar Loves Hollywood
Share files peer to peer? The Obama administration and Hollywood have gotten together to make sure you don’t. Leaked emails show a very chummy relationship between the “Copyright Czar” and the folks in California.
