Re: [microsound]mickey mouse (was fmsbwtözäu!)

[Ben <bent@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, this depressing news was the first thing that greeted me this 
morning when I opened my browser to slashdot. I don't know why I had 
expected any other result... blind, naive optimism, I guess. For those 
who haven't followed the Eldred case, Larry Lessig (my personal hero) 
argued to the supreme court that congress had violated the spirit of the 
original copyright law in enacting - repeatedly - legislation to 
lengthen the copyright term (it's now at author's life plus 70 years, I 
believe). If I understand the opinion handed down by the supreme court, 
they say even though congress keeps making the term longer, they haven't 
technically done away with the limit. Of course, nothing's to stop 
congress from passing a new extension to copyrights every time they're 
about to expire... oh, there's a limit alright, we'll just never reach 
it. The whole thing is so infuriating.

And, as if I wasn't already sick to my stomach, as few posts later on 
slashdot was some dumbass saying that the creative commons was is based 
on a strikingly naive 60's-retro ideological view of how content 
intermediaries function and that publishers (i think he's in the 
publishing industry) provide an essential filtering system to the stream 
of crap that writers produce. Yes, he actually says that all writing is 
crap and publishers refine it until it's worthwhile. Imagine if this 
were applied to music (which the creative commons license also covers): 
so all music is crap unless it gets a stamp of approval from the music 
industry?

These two reads, coming back to back, make me just quiver with rage.

Here are some links:

the content is crap article:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-011303A

the crative commons:
http://www.creativecommons.org/

and my hero:
http://www.lessig.org/

It sounds so trite and cliché, but it's never been so true: fight the power!

b

rick silva wrote:

>thanks for all the schwitter links!
>
>seen this? mickey mouse wins at the supreme court 7 to 2! :
>
>Majority op by Ginsburg:
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>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/01-618o.pdf
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> Dissent by Stevens:
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>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/01-618d.pdf
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> Dissent by Breyer:
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>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/01-618d1.pdf
>
> All links are from Lessigs blog @
> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Björn Eriksson" <bjorn.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [microsound] fmsbwtözäu!
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>You can seek the Ubu Web at www.ubu.com
>
>Jaap Blonk has read his Ursunate and is for d/l in mp3 here... also some
>other readings by Schwitter himself. You can also try share system
>www.slsk.org
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>/björn eriksson
>
>http://www.ubu.com/feature/sound/feature_blonk.html
>
>http://www.ubu.com/feature/sound/feature_schwitters.html
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "rick silva" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:37 AM
>Subject: [microsound] fmsbwtözäu!
>
>
>anyone know where online to get higher quality recordings of kurt schwitters
>reading some of
>his "sound" poems?
>
>grazie,
>
>rick
>
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