On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanencimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
Not everyone has noble thoughts about free culture and freeing public domain material, running through their minds all the time.
I hope you will forgive me.
I know that is likely to be a "brain fart" of the type that I personally suffer from more than most, but I did smile at the thought of "freeing public domain material".
:-D
:-)
Wording was deliberate. The point being postulated is that the NPG are imprisoning the PD material.
That's pretty mild compared to Jussi-Ville's evocative language: "trying to 'Dred Scott' works already escaped into PD 'back south' into Copyright Protected dominion"
Since this is a UK issue, though, maybe our inflammatory rhetoric should use the tropes of imperialism.
Of course, sooner or later the rhetoric of copyright politics all ends in the same place: http://ideas.4brad.com/hitler-tries-dmca-takedown