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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-copyright-old.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-copyright-old.html index 0b55b7f..94e2157 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-copyright-old.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-copyright-old.html @@ -1,23 +1,29 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws copyright" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Freedom—or Copyright? (Old Version) - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/freedom-or-copyright-old.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Freedom—or Copyright? (Old Version)</h2> -<div class="announcement"> -<blockquote><p>There is an <a +<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> + +<div class="infobox"> +<p>There is an <a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html"> updated version</a> of -this article.</p></blockquote> +this article.</p> </div> +<hr class="thin" /> -<p> - by <strong>Richard M. Stallman</strong> -</p> - -<blockquote> +<div class="introduction"> <p> The brave new world of e-books: no more used book stores, no more lending a book to your friend, no more borrowing one from the public @@ -25,7 +31,7 @@ library, no purchasing a book except with a credit card that identifies what you read. Even reading an e-book without authorization is a crime. </p> -</blockquote> +</div> <p> Once upon a time, in the age of the printing press, an industrial @@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ crime.</p> <p> We still have the same old freedoms in using paper books. But if e-books replace printed books, that exception will do little -good. With “electronic ink”, which makes it possible to +good. With “electronic ink,” which makes it possible to download new text onto an apparently printed piece of paper, even newspapers could become ephemeral. Imagine: no more used book stores; no more lending a book to your friend; no more borrowing one from the @@ -100,7 +106,7 @@ political issues raised by this futuristic technology. Besides, the public has been taught that copyright exists to “protect” the copyright holders, with the implication that the public's interests do not count. (The biased term -“<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html"> intellectual +“<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">intellectual property</a>” also promotes that view; in addition, it encourages the mistake of trying to treat several laws that are almost totally different—such as copyright law and patent law—as @@ -135,12 +141,14 @@ Eventually, when computer networks provide an easy way to send someone a small amount of money, the whole rationale for restricting verbatim copying will go away. If you like a book, and a box pops up on your computer saying “Click here to give the author one -dollar”, wouldn't you click? Copyright for books and music, as +dollar,” wouldn't you click? Copyright for books and music, as it applies to distributing verbatim unmodified copies, will be entirely obsolete. And not a moment too soon!</p> +</div> + </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a @@ -158,29 +166,46 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for -information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p> +information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> -<p>Copyright © 1999, 2008 Richard M. 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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 © 1999, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" -href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative -Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p> +href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative +Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:05 $ +$Date: 2021/09/16 16:56:20 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |