Stop Online Piracy Act

[Nash]

This is only loosely related, but I'm not sure there's a better place to put it. Speculate on the mess this Supreme Court decision will create. Instead of just protecting their lobbyists' copyrights, now Congress can reassign copyrights to them.

I'd have to read the actual decision, but from what I've heard, this is to cater to the Berne Convention respecting other countries' copyright laws. Not every country under the Berne Convention has the public domain, so even if a copyrighted work ended up in the public domain in our country, they wouldn't be in the public domain in its country of origin. Therefore, this allows Congress to reassign the copyright here so as to respect the copyright laws of those countries.

[dave is ok]

Not like it matters. Nothing will ever reach public domain again in this country

[YellerDog]

Creative Commons licensing says what's up.

[Josh]

When I asked megaupload to remove my stuff it took them about an hour to do so. I'm small time, but they still removed it. No complaints.

[Nash]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...ney-over-anti/

[FirstBlood]

Dodd, who became CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America after leaving the Senate in 2011, noted the movie "Avatar" was stolen by online pirates 21 million times. Such acts, he said, threaten to decimate his industry.

LOL.

[jyoung]

Yeah, didn't Avatar break records for movie earnings?

Fuck that guy.

[No One]

Oh for fuck's sake, out of all the possible examples he could have picked, he picks a movie that earned nearly a billion dollars (domestic + abroad)?

Also, I'm sure it's piracy that's hurting the film industry and not the ludicrous prices and endless parade of sequels and shitty remakes.

[Fe 26]

I'd have to read the actual decision, but from what I've heard, this is to cater to the Berne Convention respecting other countries' copyright laws. Not every country under the Berne Convention has the public domain, so even if a copyrighted work ended up in the public domain in our country, they wouldn't be in the public domain in its country of origin. Therefore, this allows Congress to reassign the copyright here so as to respect the copyright laws of those countries.

They can get fucked.

Other countries use their copy right law to censor their own people. Just read up on how Germany treats its people in regards to anything written and printed in the 30s and 40s. There are huge libraries of books they hold the copyright on that they refuse to allow people to reprint that are in the public domain in the US. There are entire generations of germans and japanese people that have no idea how horrible their country was because they don't have access to documents from those periods.

Foreign copyright law is oppressive horse-shit and we shouldn't humor it or give it any credence.

[No One]

Are you really implying there are generations of German people out there that are unaware of their country's part in World War II?