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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 6145361" data-attributes="member: 6688049"><p><strong>A pat on the head, but no medal.</strong></p><p></p><p>What good little boys and girls you are. You know US copyright law so well! There's no question that she "broke the law". Those good boys at the Mystara Piazza get a nice pat on their little heady-heads for turning her in. Maybe Hasbro will give those nice boys an awesome little gift certificate for their service to corporatized culture...</p><p style="text-align: center">***</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p></p><p>The original goal of copyright law was to provide for individual human creators so that they would have a livelihood, for a relatively short time (14 years), while they produce entirely new creative works.</p><p></p><p>Yet via corporate influence in the legislation of rights law, this has grown into a monster:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the case of <em>natural persons (human beings),</em> the creative works are locked down for the life of the author plus <em>70 years after they're dead</em>. This provides a pension to a family lineage, who they themselves perhaps have done nothing to contribute to humanity's creative commons. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And for works which were authored by <em>legal persons (non-human corporate beings) </em>these stories are locked down for <em>120 years</em>. </li> </ul><p></p><p>Gigantic media and entertainment corporations have commoditized and locked down our culture and stories and shared mythologies.</p><p></p><p>The Mystara Piazzites and ENWorlders don't get a medal for pointing out who "broke the law". You do get a medal for sensing what a vibrant, humane, free cultural sector would look like, and enacting that.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement</a></p><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow/free-cultural-sector" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow/free-cultural-sector</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 6145361, member: 6688049"] [b]A pat on the head, but no medal.[/b] What good little boys and girls you are. You know US copyright law so well! There's no question that she "broke the law". Those good boys at the Mystara Piazza get a nice pat on their little heady-heads for turning her in. Maybe Hasbro will give those nice boys an awesome little gift certificate for their service to corporatized culture... [CENTER]*** [/CENTER] The original goal of copyright law was to provide for individual human creators so that they would have a livelihood, for a relatively short time (14 years), while they produce entirely new creative works. Yet via corporate influence in the legislation of rights law, this has grown into a monster: [LIST] [*]In the case of [I]natural persons (human beings),[/I] the creative works are locked down for the life of the author plus [I]70 years after they're dead[/I]. This provides a pension to a family lineage, who they themselves perhaps have done nothing to contribute to humanity's creative commons. [*]And for works which were authored by [I]legal persons (non-human corporate beings) [/I]these stories are locked down for [I]120 years[/I]. [/LIST] Gigantic media and entertainment corporations have commoditized and locked down our culture and stories and shared mythologies. The Mystara Piazzites and ENWorlders don't get a medal for pointing out who "broke the law". You do get a medal for sensing what a vibrant, humane, free cultural sector would look like, and enacting that. [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_culture_movement[/URL] [URL]https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow/free-cultural-sector[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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