By Christian Engström, Rick Falkvinge
Legalized dossier sharing, shorter defense instances for the economic copyright monopoly, unfastened sampling, and a ban on DRM. those are the details of the concept for copyright reform that the Pirate social gathering is advocating. it is a optimistic substitute to the debatable ACTA contract, and to the criminalization of the complete younger iteration.
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Therefore, the Stationers’ monopoly was made to expire in 1695. So from 1695 onward, there was no copyright. None. Creativity soared – again – and historians claim that many of the documents that eventually led to the founding of the United States of America were written in this time. Unfortunately, the London Company of Stationers were not happy at all with the new order where they had lost their lucrative monopoly. They gathered their families on the stairs of Parliament and begged for the monopoly to be reinstated.
The reason that the Jammie Thomas case got media attention wasn’t that it was the 26 first, or that the claims made by the record company were unusually outrageous. Those were exactly the same claims that the record companies had already made in thousands of similar cases. The Jammie Thomas case got attention because she was the first defendant that pleaded not guilty, and stood up to the music and film industry associations. Instead of folding and paying the offered settlement, she took this case to court.
All of this is normal for property. It is mine; I may do what I like with it. Build copies, sell, display, whatever. As a sidetrack, this assumes that there are no patents on the chair. However, assuming that the invention of the chair is older than 20 years, any filed patents on this particular invention have expired. Therefore, patents are not relevant for this discussion. Now, let’s jump to what happens when I buy a movie. When I buy a movie, I hand over money and I get the DVD and a receipt.