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The Constitution guarantees individuals
the sole ownership rights to their own creations for a limited
time.
Creative
works, intellectual
property, first held an intial copyright period of 28 years from the date
of publication of the first edition.
A copyright could be renewed for
another 28 years for a total of 56 years.
1976
Copyright Act changes existing copyright.
After January 1, 1978,
the copyright period became the life of the author plus fifty years after the
author's demise.
June 26, 1992 1976 Copyright
Act amended to extend all copyrights still in existence to a term of 75
years.
For works penned after January 1, 1978, the Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act, signed into law on October 27, 1998, amends
the copyright protection term to the life of the author plus an additional 70
years.
Anonymous and pseudonymous works and works made for hire; the
term is 95 years from the year of first publication or 120 years from year of
creation.
For pre-1978 works still in their original or renewal term of
copyright, the total term is extended to 95 years.
"Under Eisner's watch
Disney was the driving force
behind the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Disney success was due to
its widespread use of stories and concepts from the
public domain." - Mike
Masnick
Copyright periods have been more than doubled recently.
This benefits corporate elite in three ways:
first,
corporate elite retain a revenue
stream;
second, information capture and retention;
third,
important broad knowledge concerning
health,
economics,
statistical trends,
psychological operations,
science,
the environment as well
as other
general knowledge is hidden away and not available to the
general public.
Television has replaced the
Oral Traditional.
The storyteller is a rarity these
days.
Remote specialists
produce entertaining television and
movies.
For most of human history, no one
imagined that you could own a story.
Cultural commonwealth is now
walled off and
converted into
money.
There was a court case between Exxon and Kellogg
over the cartoon tigers used to market the brands: the
Exxon gas tiger and
Tony the Tiger.
The two look quite similar (similar as well to
"Tigger" of Winnie the Pooh fame, and
to "Hobbes" from the comic
strip Calvin & Hobbes).
These corporations asserted property
rights over a drawing of a tiger.
Tigers may be part of nature, but the
idea and image of a tiger, with all its associations of strength, power, and
beauty, is cultural capital.
Since there are really only
a limited number of ways to draw a
tiger and have it still look like a tiger and carry these associations, the
litigants were in effect asserting private ownership over an item of cultural
capital.
"I'm lovin' it™", a phrase, is the property of the
McDonalds®.
"Make
every drop count™" is the property of
Coca-Cola®.
"Ideas
for life™" is the property of Panasonic®.
"Always™" is
the property of Walmart®.
"Making life better™" is the property of Penn State.
You
can still use these words, but not as a slogan for your organization.
Nike has taken "Just do it™"
Donald John Trump has
taken "You're fired!™"
These are a few common phrases expropriated
from the public language.
Corvette owns a shade of red, United Parcel Service a shade of
brown.
These are parts of the
electromagnetic
spectrum.
Did these companies create these colors, or
just enclose and wall them
off !
"In 2001 a Michigan jewelry merchant, "Love your
neighbor™", sued a Florida
charity named "Love
thy neighbor™" for trademark infringement, claiming the similar name
confused customers and resulted
in lost profits" - Charles Eisenstein
"Silence the angry man with
compassion.
Silence the ill natured man with kindness.
Silence
the miser with generosity.
Silence the liar
with truth."
Siddhartha
Gautama
"To our great surprise,
the internal mental process
was perfectly
noiseless."
Carlos Brody
Ode to Paradise
Then saw I clearly how each spot in
heav'n
Is Paradise, though with like
gracious dew
The supreme virtue show'r not over all.
Contemplate here the wonder I unfold.
The nature with its Maker thus
conjoin'd,
forged first was blameless, pure and good;
But
through itself alone was driven forth
From Paradise, because it had
eschew'd
The Way of Truth
and Life, to evil turn'd.
Your nature, which entirely in its seed
Trangress'd, from
these distinctions fell, no
less
Than from its state in
Paradise.
"Long as the joy of Paradise shall
last,
Our love
shall shine around that raiment,
bright,
As
fervent; fervent, as in vision blest;
And that as far in blessedness
exceeding,
As it hath grave
beyond its virtue
great.
Our shape, regarmented with glorious weeds
Of
saintly flesh, must, being thus entire,
Show yet more gracious.
Therefore shall increase,
Whate'er of light, gratuitous, imparts
The Supreme Good; light, ministering aid,
The better disclose
his glory: whence
The vision needs increasing, much increase
The fervour, which it kindles; and that too
The ray, that comes from
it. But as the greed
Which gives out flame, yet it its whiteness
shines
More lively than that, and so preserves
Its proper
semblance; thus this circling sphere
Of splendour, shall to view less
radiant seem,
Than shall our fleshly robe, which yonder earth
Now covers. Nor will such excess of light
O'erpower us, in corporeal
organs made
Firm, and susceptible of all delight."
"O
thou, my blood!
O most exceeding grace
divine! to whom,
As now to thee, hath twice
the heav'nly gate
Been e'er unclos'd?" so spake the light; whence I
Turn'd me
toward him; then unto my dame
My sight directed, and on either side
Amazement waited me; for in her eyes
Was lighted such a
smile, I thought that mine
Had div'd unto the bottom of
my grace
And of my bliss in Paradise. Forthwith
To
hearing and to sight grateful alike,
The spirit to his poem added
things
I understood not, so
profound he spake;
Yet not of choice but
through necessity
Mysterious; for his
high conception scar'd
Beyond the mark of mortals. When the flight
Of holy transport had so spent its rage,
That nearer to the
level of our thought
The speech descended, the first sounds I heard
Were, "Best he thou, Triunal Deity!
At the sweet sounds of
comfort straight I turn'd;
And, in the saintly eyes what compassion
was seen,
I leave in silence here: nor through distrust
Of my
words only, but that to such bliss
The mind remounts not without aid.
Thus much
Yet may I speak; that, as I gaz'd on her,
Affection
found no room for other wish.
While the everlasting pleasure, that did
full
On Mercedes shine, with second view
From her fair
countenance my gladden'd soul
Contented; vanquishing me with a beam
Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list.
These
eyes are not thy only Paradise."
"I am not worthy, of my own desert,
That thou shouldst answer me; but for her sake,
Who hath
vouchsaf'd my asking, spirit blest!
That in thy joy art shrouded! say
the cause,
Which bringeth thee so near: and wherefore, say,
Doth the sweet symphony of
Paradise
Keep silence here, pervading with such sounds
Of
rapt devotion ev'ry lower sphere?"
I was as one, when a forgotten
dream
Doth come across him, and he strives in vain
To
shape it in his fantasy again,
Whenas that gracious boon was proffer'd me,
Which never may be
cancel'd from the book,
Wherein the past is written. Now were all
Those
tongues to sound, that have on sweetest milk
Of Polyhymnia and her
sisters fed
And fatten'd, not with all their help to boot,
Unto the thousandth parcel of the truth,
My song might shadow forth
that saintly smile,
flow merely in her saintly looks it wrought.
And with such figuring of Paradise
The sacred strain must
leap, like one, that meets
A sudden interruption to his road.
"Glory to the Father, to
the Son,
And to
the Holy Spirit," rang
aloud
Throughout all Paradise, that with the song
My spirit
reel'd, so passing sweet the strain:
And what I saw was equal
ecstasy;
One universal
smile it seem'd of all things,
Joy past compare,
gladness
unutterable,
Imperishable life of peace and compassion,
Exhaustless riches and unmeasur'd bliss.
Before mine eyes stood the
four torches lit;
And that, which first had come, began to wax
In brightness, and in semblance such became,
As Jove might
be, if he and Mars were birds,
And interchang'd their
plumes.
Silence ensued.
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