Friday, 24 January, 2003

>>I've been following Lessigs blog and extended site over at Stanford as he and his assistants sort out the press and commentary on the Eldred decision. This one they are referenceing, here from the Washington Times is a good example of what the prevailing view in Washington really is on this. My brother in law [who is no republican] had pointed out to me that the court took this case on, not because they thought it was hard interesting, or had good points, but because they thought it was such a laugh and a good oppurtunity to give a very pointed message to fair use and copyleft types. I note for now only that the notion of incentive to further creativety advanced by the W.Times editorialist is quite different from what I had thought I understood about that from reading Jefferson and other framers of the original copyright policy. "ghr" On the web: Eldred and Post-Eldred. The Washington Times: Why piracy control matters curlio.com: Supreme Court supports the Copyright Extention Act… [Lessig News] 10:14:06 AM    comment []; >>The BBC gives a tip of a posioned pen to the most annoying spam of the year. This year marked the first time since I've had an email account that I finally got a Nigerian confidence scheme email. With tears of pride welling up in my eyes I thought to myself "today I am a true netizen". Then I sat down and added about 50 words to my auto-delete filter. I wish to "increase" nothing, do not send me mail referenceing measurements in any system I wish to "see" or "view" nothing, and desire not to re "Mortage" my house. I especially like the qoute at the end of this article. Where someone from surf control (the company who compiled this list) estimates that the amount of spam would exceed real email by July of this year. "ghr" The most annoying spam of 2002. A list of the most irritating spam messages sent in 2002 has been put together by an e-mail filtering firm. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 9:56:15 AM    comment [];

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