{"id":705,"date":"2009-04-03T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/?p=705"},"modified":"2009-04-03T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:09:03","slug":"copyleft-suggests-balance-to-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2009\/04\/03\/copyleft-suggests-balance-to-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"COPYLEFT suggests BALANCE to COPYRIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2009\/04\/ben-y.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2009\/04\/ben-y-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-706\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/13905980\/Copyleft-Letter-to-Obama4209\">copyleft letter<\/a> noticed by <a href=\"http:\/\/copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/copyleft-to-obama-hey-remember-us.html\">ben sheffner&#8217;s blog<\/a> looks like a fake to me. i like its actual request and the reason given for it:<\/p>\n<p><em>We urge you to create offices in relevant agencies &#8230; whose dedicated role is to promote innovation and advance the cause of progress in the useful sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it all looks like sham to cover an apparent concession that the copyright czar whom obama appoints should limit her focus to copyright enforcement instead of creating a balance with the natural public force of the net.<\/p>\n<p><em>The first occupant of this position would naturally be more focused only upon certain aspects of IP policy &#8212; namely, organizing IP law enforcement efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>who wrote this? who in each of the listed organizations signed on to this?<\/p>\n<p>who at EFF, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge, WikiMedia Foundation<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>very bad things happen when you put law enforcement in the copyright giant&#8217;s hands<\/p>\n<p>:&lt;(<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/News\/79369-Will-Brandeis-lose-its-swagger\/\">save wayne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the copyleft letter noticed by ben sheffner&#8217;s blog looks like a fake to me. i like its actual request and the reason given for it: We urge you to create offices in relevant agencies &#8230; whose dedicated role is to promote innovation and advance the cause of progress in the useful sciences. But it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riaa","p1","y2009","m04","d03","h03"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}