[WikiEN-l] Copyright question

[Sage Ross]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jussi-Ville
> Heiskanen<cimonavaro at 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