Sorry - just to clarify - the "extreme language" I quoted was NOT from Sion
Simon, they were from the industry representatives who were talking on a different panel.
----- "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
From: "Brian McNeil"
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009 17:56:31 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Notes from the C&binet Forum
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:10 +0000, Andrew Turvey wrote: > - SIon Simon, another
politician present, mentioned that the copyright > debate is highly polarised between
the industry and free copyright > advocates, both sides are deaf to the other and they
need to engage. > Despite this the discussions on copyright have been largely one
sided, > unbalanced, with some fairly extreme language used - "copyright >
warriors", "green ink brigade". "a generation of stealing" etc.
That's a complete and utter misrepresentation of the other side. It's a random
representation from some file-sharer or other. He has obviously made absolutely any effort
to talk to the other side. If you get the chance, suggest he talk to Richard Stallman, in
fact, urge him to do so. I've been following the Pirate Party mailing list the past
few days. They don't want the abolition of copyright; they've read what RMS has to
say on the topic, and their interest is more in seeing a complete reevaluation of
copyright in the context of it being a social contract. Not just rights granted to a
copyright holder by society, but responsibilities that come with them - like not just
letting things enter the public domain when copyright expires, put actually taking the
time to put them out there, freely available. Creative works are, collectively, our
cultural heritage; with regard to music, the vast majority creating it see little to no
financial reward for doing so. The 'industry', on the other hand, has a long and
shameful history of assuming they have a right to be paid over and over and over again for
exactly the same piece of work. -- Brian McNeil
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