Every day is a good day to copy

Yesterday was held on Intellectual Property Day, an event completely unnecessary bureaucratic happened without glory, and instead, with great sorrow. Out of the protocol that was promoted through the World Intellectual Property under the motto " Designing the Future "the only thing that was clear was that the current intellectual property regime has lost its legitimacy altogether.

Why? May be because when the rulers lose their shame, those who obey lose respect.

But also ridiculous and unfair demands, opaque negotiations of treaties dangerous international studies and losses made ​​, sabotage P2P networks, private financing of public agencies, regulatory capture , lobbying wild filthy laws, narratives, pirates , criminalization of users, and a profound inability to accept reality and adapt to change using the arguments innevitable more stupid than we can imagine , copyright, copyright or better called, the system of protection of intellectual monopolies is one of the legal structures most harmful to society today.

My idol Glynn Moody was first explains how the drug war, then against terrorism and now ....

"Celebrate? There is not a reason to celebrate the intellectual property, but the dark days of intellectual property might be important to reflect and understand that the copyright has absolutely nothing to do with encouraging the creation, innovation and circulation of knowledge and culture in the twenty-first century is about money. Maybe if it were reformulated as a day of money or economic benefit would be more interesting.

The reality is that copyright is seriously damaging to the culture, science and practice of democracy and step by creating an unnecessary strain on and off the internet.

How then do we need copyright to society? Larry Lessig explains:

Intellectual property - as stated by William Patry on Copyright Wars and Moral Panics - it's about business models and as such, its stakeholders will have to solve their existential problems in the market to which commercial culture (or entertainment) belongs. But back to Patry citing "control is not a business model" and not "consumers are not content." Therefore it is desirable to reject any product, legislation or effort on behalf of the copyright being controlled and violating our rights to force a lack of cultural property does not exist.

As we all know via the cheerleaders of copyright-the MPAA - the intention of the entertainment industry is not democratizing culture , therefore all those who are consumers as well as mere mortals we are definitely interested in the democratization of access and culture, celebrate each day our right to create, modify, distribute, reinvent, and share our culture and circular forms in which we want to experiment with it every day.

And since today is one of those days, I share "In Praise of Copying" Marcus Boon, to start the day. Go ahead, download a copy.

By the way, yesterday also marked one of the saddest days in the history of mankind: the Chernobyl disaster ...

Every day is a good day to copy written ALT1040 April 27, 2011 by geraldine
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