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Copyright Forum idiocy

It seems like last weeks Copyright Forum (Tokyo) was a lot of fun. This Internet Watch article sheds a light on what was discussed by members of JASRAC, the RIAJ, ACCS and other author’s rights groups.

Lessons learnt:

• The upcoming reverse import ban bill is awesome.
• The copyright protection term has to be extended as much as possible.
• The public domain is evil.
• Computers are recording devices and there is thus no reason to exclude them from the compensations that have to be paid when buying e.g. a video recorder.
• We need more rules and more restrictions in order to protect and let people enjoy culture.
• Forking more cash to the content industry is a good thing.

Heh.

To ease the pain, a quote from David Weinberger’s upcoming speech for the World Economic Forum:

[...] In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist’s hands and enters our lives. And that’s not a betrayal of the work. That’s its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That’s artistic success, although it’s a branding failure.

(Via Copy & copyright diary + Boingboing)