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1. Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 (herrabre@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 08:19:29 UTC Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

   Apparently some silly USians want to extend copyright again: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/18/orrin-fucking-hatch.html

   Repeating my Twitter reaction:

   When will musicians realize that their biggest competitor is ALL THE PAST RECORDINGS EVER and revolt against this madness?

   The Internet is not what makes music hard work. Never was! It's competing with Elvis & Mozart.

   Demand the right to build on the past, not compete with it.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 13:28:38 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Woozle Hypertwin
     @woozle @herrabre Heck, at this point even the Authors' Guild doesn't support copyright extension.
     
     https://boingboing.net/2018/01/08/sonny-bono-is-dead.html
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:20:15 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @herrabre Wow. Just wow. These people.
     
     http://www.copyrightextension.com/
     
     Apparently Hatch was the face of the Sonny Bono round. I only knew him as random prominent politician.
     
     http://www.copyrightextension.com/page03.html is an excerpt of his speech when introducing the bill.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:21:05 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     The irony when a work like "The Mythology of the Public Domain: Exploring the Myths Behind Attacks on the Duration of Copyright Protection" is at an URL like http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol36/iss1/7/ .
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:24:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Sean R. Lynch ☑️
     @herrabre @seanl It's addressed in the article. The Supreme Court decision that allowed Sony Bono to stand was based on "[no seriously this is probably the last one]" and yet another increase would undermine that.
     
     No need to get excited, but particular, specific points against specific increases in dominant parts of the world is part of what will hold perpetual copyright back.
     
     US-specific arguments are super important, simply because they are the big intellectual monopoly and they are keeping everyone else on a leash.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:29:55 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Sean R. Lynch ☑️
     @herrabre @seanl We need both.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:33:46 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew Exactly.
     
     Show me one author thinking "Well, I could write a book, but if it will only benefit my grandkids and not my great-grandkids I don't see why I should bother.".
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:41:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     Oh wow, I started reading it but now I realized the damn thing is 71 pages long. But I saw the first clear-as-day strawman already on page 3, so I feel like it's just good self-care to put this thing to the side and not read it until I feel the need for some righteous rage.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:44:27 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     • Sean R. Lynch ☑️
     @herrabre @seanl Also, you know, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." (© 1790 John Philpot Curran)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 16:58:14 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Sean R. Lynch ☑️
     @djabadu @seanl Well, @herrabre said it in contrast to lifetimes.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 19:16:08 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @herrabre TechDirt's take: https://social.heldscal.la/url/1543628