Rock

If you are in the newspaper industry you should know that the shelf life for a news story is extremely short. After the initial run it retains very little value and mainly only has research value after that news cycle. However the copyright for that work is for the life of the writer plus 70 years. The vast majority of that time the news article retains no market value what-so-ever.

Books are written that may only have an initial run and then the author never sees a dime again however the copyright last for the life of the writer plus 70 years. In the mean time the work is lost into history because the writer either loses interest, dies and has no heirs or for many reasons the work is sent down a copyright black hole never to return.

This is a real problem and could easily be fixed however IP Maximilists like yourself will consign 99% of all works into oblivion to protect the less than 1% of works that will still be available after the life of the originator plus 70 years. This could be fixed by simply stating that a copyrighted work will remain with the copyright holder as long as it is actively marketed but if a time period of say 5 - 10 years goes by then it will go into the public domain. This would protect that 1% plus keep the other 99% from being banished forever.

Congress is trying to deal with copyright orphaned work but those that are trying to protect the 1% are fighting for any meaningful changes which makes them the culture thieves not the ones who are trying to preserve the works.

The copyright clause states that Congress may enact laws regarding copyrights and mandates a limited time and only to promote art and useful works. It was never intended to be a permanent monopoly of the originator but to give creators an incentive to create. Our modern copyright laws have completely abandoned the Constitutional principle regarding copyrights.

The Constitution acknowledges there is a societal purpose for copyright laws but when copyrights last so long as to hamper the preservation of the works that become important to society then the entire Constitutional purpose for protection is turned on its head.

Copyrights, until recently, have never given the copyright holder any say on how and when the works are used. It only gives an exclusive right to copy. It was never intended to protect business models or the market of the copyrighted works.

What is interesting too Rock is that Judge Kane is handling ALL the Righthaven cases in Colorado and there is a REAL possibility he is going to dismiss every last one of them.

Rock

I don't know who you are but I now know what you are. You are what is called a IP (intellectual property) maximilist. I have been studying this movement and once I leaned about this I began to understand you to a tee.

IP Maximilists believe that intellectual property rights is the ultimate right and trumps every other right including freedom of speech. They are fighting to abolish any concept of fair use. In fact their ultimate aim is to make it so a copyright owner can dictate when, how, why, where, and what copyrighted works can be used in ALL situations. Even dictating the very behavior of the user.

IP Maximilists are seeking to change the nature of the internet to a purely deliverer of information like cable tv where people can no longer contribute to it.

They are also seeking severe criminal penalties for even the most minor infractions.

They are seeking to dictate what kind of technologies can be used to deliver their content and stifle any others they do not approve of.

They are using trade agreements and international law to circumvent lawmakers, US courts and the Constitution itself.

IP Maximilists are culture thieves. They seek to control and restrict information and take away from the public access to important historical works and take away from our cultural heritage.

They have succeeded in making copyrights so long that it outlives the shelf life of practically every work ever produced except for the very most popular. By the time the most every work becomes public domain it will be long forgotten and possibly no longer even exist thus depriving mankind of almost all human knowledge. It is indeed a crime against humanity.

This is what you are ROCK.

The Judge has made it plain he will not be a party to Righthaven's shakedown efforts. Nevada courts sent Righthaven packing now Colorado. Righthaven may lose every single case they have filed in Colorado due to this TSA image.

Righthavan clearly did not anticipate this much exposure to the courts. They were over confident in their own abilities to strong arm settlements. The problem is that victims are now armed with plenty of information. Righthaven can no longer count on their prey being ignorant of the law.

http://righthavenvictims.blogspot.com/20...

That's what Ken thinks