Below is a GovAccess piece on the plan to redefine copyright law. Besides
the Wired article referred to, there's also an article by John Perry Barlow
in the December issue of ACM Communications. John states: "I now realize
that copyright, the erstwhile handmaiden of Jeffersonian liberty, is about
to become a favored tool of tyrants." He gives a site for the text of the
relevant White Paper at the U.S. Patent Office:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/ipnii
And once again, PFF's Magna Carta serves as a kind of "Mein Kampf",
foretelling the onslaught. The MC extolled the virtues of unregulated
monopoly ownership, and that's exactly what we're getting in the Telecom
bill; the MC talked about "Third Wave intellectual property" (ironically,
quoting Barlow), and here we see that agenda coming to pass.
Other MC warnings to keep in mind:
- outright corprate ownership of broadcast frequencies
- accounting procedures twisted to favor telecom coffers
-rkm
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995
To: •••@••.•••
From: •••@••.••• (Jim Warren)
Subject: GovAccess.229: DoJ; FOIA; lists; infochoke; webreg; RNC;... Strike!
CONTENTS
Department of Justice Electronic Newsletter
Webpage and Contact Vector for California's Computer History Association
FOIA for Fishing for Emailees? [FOIA = federal Freedom of Information Act]
Link to Perhaps the *First* List-of-Lists of Email Listservs
Clinton's Corporate Representatives Plan to Choke Online Info Sharing, Bigtime!
Federal Trade Commission to Consider Regulating Web Access Info Collection
Republican National Committee Refuses to Disclose Prexy Candidates' Contact Info
Critique of Mother Jones' Expose' of Newt's Loot
Clinton Administration Blockades Public Access to Computerized Court Decisions
NY *Does* Have Transcripts of Legislative Sessions - but Open Only to Rulers
Telecom Bill Correction re Brock Meeks: Republicans Back Away, "Too Regulatory"
[offensive] Excerpt from List of the "Ten Most Dimwitted Members of Congress"
[optional entertainment] On Strike! - Nation's Ultimate Labor-Management Dispute
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Clinton's Corporate Representatives Plan to Choke Online Info Sharing, Bigtime!
From: •••@••.•••
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995
Check out the current issue of Wired [www.wired.com]. There is a great
article about how [Secy of Commerce] Ron Brown and [Patent and Copyright
Commissioner] Bruce Lehman plan to twist copyright law to castrate
cyberspace.
If what they want comes to be, you can clip and route or snail mail paper
copies of articles -- but if you do it via digital media, you violate
federal law. And the want to make the service providers into deputy cyber
cops and force them to snoop on you to keep you honest.
I AM SERIOUS. The bills are now in Congress.
[I was following this, and *appalled*, but have lost track of the current
status of this impending thought-monopoly debacle, in the course of tilting
at other windmills. This is *dangerous*. Those who would dare to share
info, online, *beware*! (Hey, you folks who've been following this more
closely: Is there now any robust freedom-to-think listserv or website for
exchanging info and organizing opposition to the planned copy suppression?)
--jim]
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Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/
CyberLib: http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib
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