What If Copyrights Only Lasted For Five Years?

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:13:00 GMT

A recent article in informationweek.com proposed limiting the term of copyright to five years as a way to deal with the recording industries recent abusive lawsuits. The results of such a change would be far reaching and immediate.

If the proposed change were ever introduced in congress the first response by the affected industries, would be a preemptive strike in congress. Airlines would have to add extra flights to handle the massive traffic from the lobbiests flying in from across the country in an attempt to stop the bill. If somehow the bill made it through congress despite the massive lobbying and the enormous sums of money that would be thrown at legislators the industry would be changed forever.

Copyright Violation Is Not Theft

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:51:00 GMT

Copyright violation is not theft. This is another example of using a words connotations to imply an act is worse than it really is. In another recent article I attacked the use of the phrase, “climate change denier”, as being dishonest in that the implication was that someone who was honestly sceptical about climate change was being implicitly grouped with holocaust deniers. The left learns fast as this is what they pointed out Bush did with Iraq and terrorism related to 9/11. Theft is another term that has been hijacked by corporations to describe copyright violations in such a way as to imply the moral equivalence of theft.

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What If Copyrights Only Lasted For Five Years?

Copyright Violation Is Not Theft