Creative &$(#@ Commons
Like CC hasn’t been bad enough, now the “brain trust” (ahem) there has come up with a new “license” (it isn’t a license at all) that is, as the Copyright Alliance says, essentially intellectual property rights suicide for the creator.
I am so sick of CC. They do so much harm to all intellectual property creators of every kind. Grrrr….
March 16th, 2009 at 7:27 am
You should be glad you weren’t at the JMLS IP conference last month… the fellow who is representing Shepard Fairey (and who represented James Van Der Ark) was there with a gag-worthy web2.0-lookin’ presentation about why short of stopping me fromI just stealing Harry Potter DVD’s from the store and reselling them, IP protection is Bad For Humankind. I half expected him to start referring to Saint Lawrence.
While I didn’t like his presentation, I must admit that that man could talk birds out of the trees. It took a Rowling to beat him: the AP doesn’t have a chance. They should lose anyway, IMO, there’s just not enough there there. But even if they had any sort of case, I wouldn’t want to face that fellow in court.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Pardon me for being old fashioned, but come Shepard.
Barack Obama isn’t *that* difficult to draw or paint. So, why did you have to modify someone else’s photo in order to create your poster?