http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Finding a new topic to ‘queer’ ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:25:50 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/#comment-990 [...] forever under the jauntily named Creative Commons régime. In that respect, they are more akin to notorious corporate-copyright arseholes than they might want to admit, only with black MacBooks and World of Warcraft [...] [...] forever under the jauntily named Creative Commons régime. In that respect, they are more akin to notorious corporate-copyright arseholes than they might want to admit, only with black MacBooks and World of Warcraft [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Camps and copyright ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Tue, 15 May 2007 21:29:13 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/#comment-939 [...] If any of you think you can get away with nonsense like this at future conferences, be advised now that I will show up, intentionally create a copyrightable work, and sue you if you try to use it in any way permissible under Creative Commons but impermissible under existing law. I’ve taken down bigger adversaries than you, and I’ll laugh while I’m doing it. It would be just as unwise to use the foregoing as a pretext to exclude me from an event. You’re conference organizers, not pirates. Presumably. [...] [...] If any of you think you can get away with nonsense like this at future conferences, be advised now that I will show up, intentionally create a copyrightable work, and sue you if you try to use it in any way permissible under Creative Commons but impermissible under existing law. I’ve taken down bigger adversaries than you, and I’ll laugh while I’m doing it. It would be just as unwise to use the foregoing as a pretext to exclude me from an event. You’re conference organizers, not pirates. Presumably. [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-646 When and if Spacers get serious – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:24:40 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/#comment-646 [...] Did Micallef settle for peanuts because he doesn’t understand copyright law, doesn’t have a lawyer (he could have used mine), didn’t understand the seriousness of the injury against him, denied such seriousness, or just wanted to put the whole thing behind him? I know it’s always presumptuous to tell people how to live their lives, particularly during a crisis, but presumptuousness is the least of my worries here. Micallef was wrong to settle for next to nothing and he should have sued the pants off the fuckers. Doesn’t he understand that other freelance writers, like me, have spent a decade trying to counter newspapers’ organized copyright infringement? Or how much we’ve suffered along the way? (We did win an eventual partial victory last summer.) [...] [...] Did Micallef settle for peanuts because he doesn’t understand copyright law, doesn’t have a lawyer (he could have used mine), didn’t understand the seriousness of the injury against him, denied such seriousness, or just wanted to put the whole thing behind him? I know it’s always presumptuous to tell people how to live their lives, particularly during a crisis, but presumptuousness is the least of my worries here. Micallef was wrong to settle for next to nothing and he should have sued the pants off the fuckers. Doesn’t he understand that other freelance writers, like me, have spent a decade trying to counter newspapers’ organized copyright infringement? Or how much we’ve suffered along the way? (We did win an eventual partial victory last summer.) [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Geist does Hart House – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:23:50 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2004/08/29/copyright/#comment-228 [...] Q. from writer [John Degen]: I’m excited by all the visions you’ve created. At a party recently, which must have been a really boring party because life-plus-50 came up, people asked about the point of protecting your work once you’re dead. [Because your heirs are not dead and your works are your children.] [...] [...] Q. from writer [John Degen]: I’m excited by all the visions you’ve created. At a party recently, which must have been a really boring party because life-plus-50 came up, people asked about the point of protecting your work once you’re dead. [Because your heirs are not dead and your works are your children.] [...]

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