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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bdk.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bdk.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb7f649 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/bdk.html @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<title>The Ballad of Dennis Karjala +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/bdk.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>The Ballad of Dennis Karjala</h2> + +<blockquote> +<p>A political comment in the form of a broadside ballad, +by Timothy R. Phillips</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="lyrics"> +<p>Come all you brave songwriters, and listen unto me,<br /> +I'll tell you of a man who fought all for our liberty.<br /> +With nothing but a web site and a stout heart in his breast,<br /> +he fought the Disney company and the greedy Gershwin Trust.</p> + +<p> +It wasn't many years ago, in nineteen and seventy-eight,<br /> +they added nineteen years onto the term of copyright;<br /> +then said the movie barons and the proud high-lords of song,<br /> +“our copyrights will suit us well if they can last this long.”</p> + +<p>But when the nineteen extra years were nearly past and done,<br /> +those same proud barons then returned with cash to Washington.<br /> +“We want another twenty years, we hate the public domain.<br /> +And here's some cash that you can use to fund your next campaign.”</p> + +<p>Then up spoke Dennis Karjala in Arizona's land,<br /> +“Rise up, rise up my merry men! for we must take our stand<br /> +all for the Constitution, or the lords of copyright<br /> +will steal away our books and music in their haughty might.”</p> + +<p>Then up rose Dennis's merry men, they gathered to his cause:<br /> +The wise man Peter Jaszi, well learned in the laws;<br /> +and Mary Brandt, the valiant maid from Mississippi's land,<br /> +with a hundred alligators that all wait on her command.</p> + +<p>“Oh Congressmen, you are deceived! the lords of Hollywood<br /> +have made you to forget your oath to serve the common good.”<br /> +“Hush you, Dennis Karjala, your egghead words are rash.<br /> +We'll listen to the film-lords, and to their ready cash.”</p> + +<p>“Alas for us, my merry men! the Congress is beguiled,<br /> +the public domain is put to nought, and freedom is reviled.<br /> +Now let us warn the people with a web-page on the net.<br /> +Though our proud foes are mighty, perhaps we'll beat them yet.”</p> + +<p>Now Dennis posts his web-page on a node in cyber-space<br /> +and Mary Brandt with her alligators back in her own place,<br /> +launches a web-wide mailing list where messages will run,<br /> +that the evil that the song-lords plan might somehow be undone.</p> + +<p>The President sits in his house with an Intern at his feet,<br /> +and a Congresswoman comes to him with words so honey-sweet.<br /> +The President, he signs the bill: for twenty years more by law,<br /> +song-barons will suck the public's life into their greedy maw.</p> + +<p>“Alas for us, my merry men, alas for the public domain.<br /> +The people's right is thrown aside all for the film-lords' gain.<br /> +But let us fight on 'til the day the barons in their greed<br /> +are cast down from their seat, and song and letters will be freed.”</p> +</div> + +<p> +First posted January 27, 2000. +</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the + document was modified, or published. + + If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. + Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying + years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable + year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including + being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). + + There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers + Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> + +<p>Copyright © 2000, 2014 Timothy R. Phillips</p> + +<p>The author thanks Peter Jaszi, Mary Brandt Jensen, and Dennis +Karjala for allowing him to portray them in mythological garb. This +ballad may be reprinted freely as long as the words are unaltered and +this notice is included.</p> + +<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> + +<p class="unprintable">Updated: +<!-- timestamp start --> +$Date: 2014/04/12 12:39:58 $ +<!-- timestamp end --> +</p> +</div> +</div> +</body> +</html> |