[cafe-sd] [Fwd: Outreach Volunteers Needed - Content Control is a Dead End]

[Miquel]

Forwarded message:
> 
> I'm sending this because I am looking for concerned individuals who
> understand the importance of the following cause:
> 
> 
> Content control is a dead end.
> 
> The legal tradition in copyright has always drawn a distinction
> between facts and ideas on one hand, which nobody can own; and
> expression on the other hand, which is what has been allowed to be
> copyrighted.  The thing is, data elements are facts, whether they are
> part of an expressive work or not.  Free speech, the use of
> information and the very purpose of copyright are being revised by
> publishers and other "content" stakeholders by means of "content"
> control measures, such as the American Digital Millennium Copyright
> Anticircumvention Act, and the provisions of the international TRIPS
> treaty.
> 
> Currently, a Russian citizen, Dmitry Sklyarov, is being prosecuted for
> felony charges under the DMCA, for work he did in developing software
> that decrypts the Adobe e-Book.
> 
> The Copyright Clause in the US Constitution is geared toward allowing
> Congress to grant artificial monopolies ("exclusive Right" for
> "limited Times" to "Writings and Discoveries") in order to "promote
> the Progress of Science and useful Arts."  It does not grant copyright
> as a natural right, and it does not provide for the superseding of
> free speech by this power of Congress.
> 
> Do you agree that content control must not be allowed to enable
> copyright to supersede our free speech right to process and distribute
> information?
> 
> We need outreach volunteers and coordinators who wish to help get the
> word out about what is going on, and to build the constituency of
> those who are affected by these developments.
> 
> If you agree that content control must not be allowed to enable
> 
> If you agree that content control must not be allowed to enable
> copyright to supersede free speech rights, then please contact me, or
> subscribe to the C-FIT Content Control Outreach discussion list by
> sending an email saying "subscribe C-FIT_Release_Community" to
> ListServ at realmeasures.dyndns.org.
> 
> Seth Johnson seth.johnson at RealMeasures.dyndns.org
> 
> Information Producers Initiative Basic Position Statement:
> http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/C-FIT/Theory1.htm


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