Comments on: A View From the Fence Show 2a: Technology and Politics http://www.aviewfromthefence.com/2008/06/18/a-view-from-the-fence-show-2a-technology-and-politics/ If someone doesn't share your view, doesn't mean that they're wrong Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: lambo http://www.aviewfromthefence.com/2008/06/18/a-view-from-the-fence-show-2a-technology-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-10 lambo Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:49:11 +0000 http://www.aviewfromthefence.com/?p=5#comment-10 Pilitus, You are right, I totally forgot the Berne Convention. Also, thanks for pointing that out, we will make a point of that in show 3. Well, I knew there will be a point we would screw up something and an audience member corrects us. Thanks Oops, our bad. Pilitus,

You are right, I totally forgot the Berne Convention. Also, thanks for pointing that out, we will make a point of that in show 3. Well, I knew there will be a point we would screw up something and an audience member corrects us.

Thanks

Oops, our bad.

]]> By: Pilitus http://www.aviewfromthefence.com/2008/06/18/a-view-from-the-fence-show-2a-technology-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Pilitus Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:26:00 +0000 http://www.aviewfromthefence.com/?p=5#comment-9 You guys got copyright completely wrong. Copyright was originally a "fuzzy" issue with federal laws that governed published materials, leaving the states to decide the protections upon unpublished works. The copyright act of 1976, which brought the US copyright laws closer to the international standard, The Berne Convention, took the whole of copyright law into the federal level. And it is the Federal government's place to set copyright length. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution gives congress to set the protections of "Science and the Useful Arts." That covers both trademark and copyright. It is the federal government's place. The fact that our copyright laws are being written by corporate lobbyists for Disney is a whole other matter, one that is causing problems as corporations are attempting to purchase the closure of the "Limited Time" that is allowed by the copyright clause. You guys got copyright completely wrong. Copyright was originally a “fuzzy” issue with federal laws that governed published materials, leaving the states to decide the protections upon unpublished works. The copyright act of 1976, which brought the US copyright laws closer to the international standard, The Berne Convention, took the whole of copyright law into the federal level.

And it is the Federal government’s place to set copyright length. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution gives congress to set the protections of “Science and the Useful Arts.” That covers both trademark and copyright. It is the federal government’s place.

The fact that our copyright laws are being written by corporate lobbyists for Disney is a whole other matter, one that is causing problems as corporations are attempting to purchase the closure of the “Limited Time” that is allowed by the copyright clause.

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