Would You Like Freedom Fries With That?
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Dec 13, 2005
The point of this item - with which I am in sympathy - is that not only is copyright expanding, but its increasingly pervasive nature is becoming a medium for social control. To think of where copyright has gone in the last decade or so, "Imagine buying a bed and being told that you were only licensed to use it for yourself..." And to imagine the future: "While we're all doing the chicken dance at weddings, playing World of Warcraft in secret and trying to lose the 'love handles' we acquired over the winter, the so-called entertainment companies are in the process of stitching up our cultures in ways that are beyond imagining." And finally, "that the current legal 'owners' of so much of our cultural inheritance consider it all merchandise says a lot about them." Too true.
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