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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/misinterpreting-copyright.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/misinterpreting-copyright.html index 860a237..004f252 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/misinterpreting-copyright.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/misinterpreting-copyright.html @@ -1,12 +1,20 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<!-- 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>Misinterpreting Copyright - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/misinterpreting-copyright.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!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--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>Misinterpreting Copyright—A Series of Errors</h2> -<p>by <a href="http://stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p> +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p> Something strange and dangerous is happening in copyright law. Under @@ -345,9 +353,9 @@ to be nice. Previously this was not a crime in the US at all.</p> <p> An even worse law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), was designed to bring back what was then called “copy -protection” — now known +protection”—now known as <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM</a> (Digital -Restrictions Management) — which users already detested, +Restrictions Management)—which users already detested, by making it a crime to defeat the restrictions, or even publish information about how to defeat them. This law ought to be called the “Domination by Media Corporations Act” because it @@ -572,7 +580,7 @@ computer networks, such as the Internet. As a user of computers and networks for 30 years, I value the freedoms that we have lost, and the ones we may lose next. As an author, I can reject the romantic mystique of the author as semidivine -<a href="words-to-avoid.html#Creator">creator</a>, often cited +<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">creator</a>, often cited by publishers to justify increased copyright powers for authors—powers which these authors will then sign away to publishers.</p> <p> @@ -582,38 +590,37 @@ you to accept one thing on my word alone: that authors like me don't deserve special power over you. If you wish to reward me further for the software or books I have written, I would gratefully accept a check—but please don't surrender your freedom in my name.</p> +<div class="column-limit"></div> -<h4>Footnotes</h4> +<h3 class="footnote">Footnotes</h3> <ol> -<li> -<a id="footnote1"></a>See Julian Sanchez’s +<li id="footnote1">See Julian Sanchez’s article <a href="http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/02/04/the-trouble-with-balance-metaphors/">“The Trouble with ‘Balance’ Metaphors”</a> for an examination of “how the analogy between sound judgment and balancing weights may constrain our thinking in unhealthy ways.”</li> -<li> -<a id="footnote2"></a>Since renamed to the unpronounceable CBDTPA, +<li id="footnote2">Since renamed to the unpronounceable CBDTPA, for which a good mnemonic is “Consume, But Don't Try Programming Anything,” but it really stands for the “Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.”</li> -<li> -<a id="footnote3"></a>If you would like to help, I recommend the Web -sites <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org">DefectiveByDesign.org</a>, -<a href="http://publicknowledge.org">publicknowledge.org</a> -and <a href="http://www.eff.org">www.eff.org</a>.</li> +<li id="footnote3">If you would like to help, I recommend the Web +sites <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/">DefectiveByDesign.org</a>, +<a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/">publicknowledge.org</a> +and <a href="https://www.eff.org/">www.eff.org</a>.</li> </ol> -<hr /> -<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published -in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free +<hr class="no-display" /> +<div class="edu-note c"><p id="fsfs">This essay is published in +<a href="https://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard -M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></blockquote> +M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></div> +</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 @@ -631,13 +638,13 @@ to <a 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 +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -658,7 +665,8 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2007, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<p>Copyright © 2002, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2021 Free Software +Foundation, Inc.</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -668,7 +676,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2020/10/26 13:25:22 $ +$Date: 2021/11/28 10:12:11 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |