tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post1474517526280863977..comments2024-01-07T05:28:45.522-08:00Comments on Thmazing's Thutopia: An open letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein on this issue of SOPA/PIPATh.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-38665027086981048222012-01-23T13:03:45.026-08:002012-01-23T13:03:45.026-08:00.
I had no idea this reclamation was even going o....<br /><br />I had no idea this reclamation was even going on until I read earlier this month that Republic Pictures reclaimed "It's a Wonderful Life" --- what's <i>that</i> all about? This is ridiculous!Mr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10844222029915042003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-90883049734835086292012-01-22T23:18:28.476-08:002012-01-22T23:18:28.476-08:00Various industries are posting "No Trespassin...Various industries are posting "No Trespassing" signs on the gleaning fields of the public domain through legislative means. The funny thing: Many of these SOPA-tote'n interests are actually quite the freebooters themselves, trusting in the expensive and slow-grinding wheels of the courts and lobbyist-altered legislation to protect them from that same charge which they freely and with growing impunity level against others ...<br /><br />My family has been in the business of restoring lost and orphaned public domain works, making them once again available. We've witnessed the public domain's steady shrinkage and obfuscation. We've been the subject of a pre-2012-Congress, SOPA-style blackout where an entire web host was taken offline because, they said, a motion picture company was after us for selling orphaned products that the company saw had garnered followings and that they managed, through legislation, to lay claim to. Some of these products they don't even sell and don't seem to be interested in selling. This move blacked out hundreds of other website stores whose businesses had nothing to do with ours except that they were hosted by the same website manager. We've also had products removed in response to false claims because web hosts are now so sensitive to copyright infringement complaints that they'll act on them without question. They do this because if they take the products down on every complaint, they're protected from even charlatan threats of lawsuits. Opportunists big and small find bounty in such a fearful environment. <br /><br />The once diverse and rich public domain is becoming an exploited and threatened environment. Strip-mining, over-grazing,and over-damming is rampant. Maybe some environmental advocacy group could sponsor a bill in its behalf?pknoreply@blogger.com