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To document the public perception of copyright today, we went around Chicago with a video camera over two days in the summer of 2006, asking strangers what they think about copyright...
The talk lasts about 90 minutes, including the question-and-answer period. The audience members' backgrounds were in library science, computer science, publishing, and law, so the Q&A is as useful as the talk. LibraryThe Promise of a Post-Copyright World A Music Teacher Describes How Copyright Hinders Music Education The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician Let the Great Cross-Referencing Begin: Google Book Search as Plagiarism Detector The Joyce Hatto Case: How Filesharing Defeats Plagiarism A Classroom Teacher on Copying vs Plagiarism Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright Copyright Bibliography See also...Right to Create, a web journal about how copyright and patent law interferes with people's ability to create new works. The Open Knowledge Foundation "Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age" AgainstMonopoly.org, Thought Thieve$ ChillingEffects.org, a clearinghouse of Cease and Desist letters sent by information monopolists to people who copy. one small voice: publicdomain, CopyrightReform.us, a good advocacy site (more from the "reform it" than "scrap it and start over" school), with up-to-date news about recent copyright outrages. |
Re: Electoral power, really?
I could certainly be wrong about how influential they are in Swedish politics: the Piratpartiet wasn't my only informant on that question, but still I'm probably talking to a biased group of people.
But what you wrote...
"They have no political agenda what so ever exept for handing out CDs with illegal copies movies and music. I actually met them once. For me it was obvious that their 'opinion', politics or what ever you want to call it is a attempt for moralizing their activities when it's in fact kids (adults according to to law) wanting their candy for free."
...is simply wrong, and that I can be certain of.
I've talked to Rick at length and in great detail about the Piratpartiet's platform; I've seen him give speeches and answer audience questions about it; I've read their campaign literature. They have a real agenda, their concerns (especially about civil liberties) are my concerns too, and it really has nothing to do with wanting to pay less for music.
In fact, the Piratpartiet's platform is very similar to many positions QuestionCopyright.org advocates. If you don't think this web site is about "kids wanting their candy for free" — and it's hard to imagine how you could — then there's no reason not to take the Piratpartiet at their word.
They really do mean what they say. You may disagree with them, but you don't do the debate any favors by attacking a caricature of their actual positions.