Well, I think FC.o does its best to be a "big tent" organization...
while our official position would probably be close to Lessig's call
for balance instead of copyright maximalism or other extremism,
there's no reason to exclude people who are convinced that more
radical changes are necessary.
If our mission is to enable grassroots participation in culture,
reasonable people can disagree about what the best way to do that is.
While completely excising copyrights, patents, etc. from our laws
would remove legal barriers to creativity, they may raise economic
barriers by making it harder to make a living from creativity. Choose
your poison.
~Nelson~
On 8/3/06, Dana Powers <dpk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe overhaul, but I don't support "outright distruction of of the
> copyright & patent systems" . We can't ignore the strong economic and moral
> reasons for copyright and patent protection. What we do fight for, in my
> opinion, is restoring reasonable balance - of which state sanctioned DRM,
> among other things, is not a part...
>
> dpk
>
>
> On 8/2/06, Gavin Baker <grbaker@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Actually, we have had a 'Pirate Party' here for 30 years, only we call
> > > ourselves "Libertarians". The overhaul or outright distruction of of
> the
> > > copyright & patent systems are one of the 'long-term' goals of the
> party.
> > > Wake up kids, I'm over thirty now and have been a Lib for most of my
> adult
> > > life.
> >
> > Interesting, I don't seem to see this in the platform. Links?
> >
> > Here's an interesting tidbit from the U.S. Greens' 2004 platform, which
> > I've posted here before:
> >
> > "The Green Party opposes patenting or copyrighting lifeforms,
> > algorithms, DNA, colors or commonly-used words and phrases. We support
> > broad interpretation and ultimate expansion of the Fair Use of
> > copyrighted works. We support open source and copyleft models in order
> > to promote the public interest and the spirit of copyright."
> >
> > http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/economics.html#247901
> >
> > And there's the snippet about RMS and a potential French presidential
> > candidate:
> >
> > http://www.fsf.org/news/stallman-royal.html
> >
> > What else?
> >
> > Gavin
> >
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