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2 years ago
Corporations can take away individual freedoms just as much as an oppressive government.
Just look at the H-P spying on journalist if you don't believe me.
People have to stand up and fight corporate fascism the same way they fought state fasciism.
2 years ago
2 years ago
The DMCA should be amended to say that if you issue a takedown that is later proven false in a court, whoever wrote teh takedown notice is fined court costs, losses to property or business and all statutory damages. It would also be nice to have everytime a corporate lawyer tries to appeal the fine, the fine is multiplied by the number of appeals.
Hey, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear, right? If they actually own the copyright on a creative work, they'll not get the notice wrong so the fine would naturally not apply to a legitimate user of the DMCA.
2 years ago
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Creative Team of �Urinetown' Complains of Midwest Shows by CAMPBELL ROBERTSON.
In the latest salvo in the battle over the extent of copyright protection, five members of the creative team behind the 2002 Broadway hit "Urinetown: the Musical" are charging that productions of the show in Chicago and Akron, Ohio, have copied their work without permission.
The letters, drafted by a lawyer, Ronald H. Shechtman, on behalf of the director John Rando, the choreographer John Carrafa, and the set, lighting and costume designers of the Broadway production, were sent on Monday night to the team behind an award-winning production at the Mercury Theater in Chicago and to the team behind the Carousel Dinner Theater production of the show in Akron.
The letters charge that in design and directorial aspects, the shows were replications of the Broadway production. The shows ââ?‰? which have both closed ââ?‰? had a license to use the script and music from "Urinetown," but, the letters assert, such permission did not extend to reproducing creative decisions made by the Broadway production's director, choreographer and designers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/theater/15uri...
2 years ago
You are an exception to the general rule.
Although, you don't seem to be bothered by corporations having the ability to effect prior restraint censorship, as I have noted in comments re: net neutrality.
Keep up the good work Tim