Re: Don't Worry, Pirates, Google Has Your Back

On 12/21/2011 5:13 AM, joseph harris wrote:
>
> [A pessimistic view of the US legislation against piracy.]
>
> Don't Worry, Pirates, Google Has Your Back
> http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-37859
> http://ereads.com/2011/12/dont-worry-pirates-google-has-your-back.html

Or optimistic, depending on you viewpoint.

The concept of "Copyfraud" may also be of interest to folks here.

_Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law_ (2011), 
http://www.copyfraud.com/

When it comes to copyright abuse, we tend to focus on teenager pirates 
downloading music and movies, but that misses the bigger picture: it's 
the corporations, government and others who are really the most guilty 
of Copyright fraud, who claim copyright on vast stretches of public 
domain material and profit from it, when they have no such right.

The author of the book, Jason Mazzone, published an earlier paper about 
it called "Copyfraud" which is free to download and has a short 
abstract. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244. 
(Beware, the earlier paper is in PDF format - you have been warned).




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