I can almost see the day when all digital work that is subject to copyright will fade from view. Those brilliant lawyers and middle managers from the music industry here in Aus have just sped the process considerably:
Ms Heindl said that this could apply even if a person had
embedded a copyright-infringing YouTube clip in their blog or
MySpace page.“We don’t make any distinctions between big websites or small
websites”, she said, adding that MIPI would consider individual
blogs on a “case-by-case basis as to whether it would be
appropriate to take action”.Ms Heindl’s message to Australians is clear: “If you are linking
to copyrighted material in an unauthorised fashion, then you can be
held liable for copyright infringement.”
It’s just to much of a hassle and dangerous to work with copyright material. Thanks to the little birdie who dropped a link to this in my Skype IM.
Fang - Mike Seyfang
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HeyTC
// Dec 21, 2006 at 3:57 pm
You’re right - the extreme legistlative DRM position is awakening a new awareness and movement toward copyfreedom.
My silver lining hopes are for a:
- new diverse make culture that is shared rather than culture that is consumed through the market [eg http://www.jamendo.com/.
- society recognising the creator as more important than the rights owner [attribution].
- society rediscovering a sharing culture that used to exist before law made ideas property.
- sharing culture that marginalises proprietry culture.
Unfortunately the silver lining has a great big dirty black cloud in the middle of it: Kim Weatherall has documented the full sorry Australian FTA induced DMCA style saga blow by blow http://weatherall.blogspot.com/.
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