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List:       dmca-discuss
Subject:    Re: [DMCA_Discuss] out of control
From:       Anatoly Volynets <av () total-knowledge ! com>
Date:       2004-02-28 2:21:30
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.58.0402271814560.14040 () papka ! total-knowledge ! com
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Wonderful! I thought it was my invention: projection of the copyrights in
some hopefully-not-so-near-future, when people walk with meters attached
to their mouthes counting each single copyrighted phrase and copyrighted
silence to automatically bill for these. It looks like we are getting
closer to this anti-utopia every day.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Admin Team wrote:

> I agree totally Matthew - it is completely out of control.
> We have had to upload this page to have our voice heard.
> www.oneparentfamily.com/slander.html
> 
> No one will listen - well not if you live in the UK
> 
> We used the similar/same META TAG words as another site.
> They claim those 'meta tags' are their copyright work.
> We have found hundreds of websites with words like:
> single,friends,parents,childhood,divorce,children,work,love,parenting, etc
> in their 'meta tags' .
> 
> Their are only so many words in the English Language one can use
> to describe a 'single parents' web site.
> If they are being used by someone else - does this mean no one else can use
> them?
> 
> Of course it seems absurd -- that's because copyright
> _IS_ totally out of control.
> 
> uhps! Sorry - is that copyright?     ........lol
> 
> Regards,
> Angela
> Admin Team
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew T. Russotto" <mrussotto@speakeasy.net>
> To: <dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Copyright Run Amok! Film at Eleven (Or maybe
> not)
> 
> 
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 10:45  PM, Jon O. wrote:
> >
> > > Yesterday, the Derby Festival said something about maybe suing WHAS to
> > > prevent them from airing the show, and today it was reported that
> > > Zambelli was filing for COPYRIGHT PROTECTION on the show, with the
> > > stated intention of suing WHAS or anybody else who broadcast that
> > > particular bit of airspace at that time.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > If I point a webcam out the window and webcast the Thunder Over
> > > Louisville fireworks show to the world, is there REALLY any serious
> > > possibility that the Derby Festival, WAVE or Zambelli might be
> > > successful in suing me for damages?
> >
> > Why not?  The only trick is fixation in a tangible medium, and that
> > they can do by recording the show themselves, or by planning out the
> > show ahead of time and claiming the show is a performance of those
> > plans.  No different than preventing rebroadcasting of an outdoor
> > musical event.  Of course it seems absurd -- that's because copyright
> > _IS_ totally out of control.
> >
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Anatoly Volynets
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